Tibidabo Aeroplane – Barcelona
Posted: March 1, 2012 Filed under: Barcelona Posts, Photography, Travel | Tags: Barcelona, Catalonia, Serra de Collserola, Spain, Tibidabo, Tibidabo Amusement Park 2 Comments »
Tibidabo Aeroplane
Mike took this photo a couple of years ago on a visit to Tibidabo Amusement Park in Barcelona, using the ‘Colour Select’ feature on his Canon camera. It’s one of my favourite photographs.
It’s a replica of the airplane that made the first flight between Barcelona and Madrid, was inaugurated in 1928, and is one of the few original rides left in the park.
Errr...that's a LONG way down...
I couldn’t pluck up the courage to go on a ’round trip’… Part of its circuit is out over the edge of Tibidabo mountain (at 512 meters it’s the tallest mountain in the Serra de Collserola) and trust me it was a LONG way down… Made me have a bit of a funny turn just looking over the edge! Yes I know its probably very securely attached – in fact it’s been securely attached since its inaguration in 1928 (actually that doesn’t make me feel any better about it…), but no way no how was I climbing in and trusting that my added weight might not be that pound too far…!
Children continue to love it though which is all that matters!
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Barcelona – City of Contrasts
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Barcelona Posts | Tags: Architecture, Barcelona, Carrer Montcada, Casa Batllo, Casa Mila, Catalonia, Cathedral, Cathedral of the Sea, Christopher Columbus, Cities, Domenech i Montaner, El Xampanyet, Frank Gehry, Gaudi, Idelfons Cerda i Sunyer, Joan Miro, La Pedrera, La Rambla, Las Ramblas, Mansana De La Discordia, Modernisme, Olympics, Passeig de Gracia, Photography, Picasso Museum, Port Olympic, Port Vell, Roman, Romans, Sagrada Familia, Santa Maria Del Mar, Torre de Gas Natural, Travel Leave a comment »We’re going back to another of our favourite cities this Spring – Barcelona. We didn’t manage to get there last year, so we both feel a strong need to ‘reconnect’.
Barcelona is a true ‘city of contrasts’.
It’s a city heavily steeped in Roman history and culture. In the ‘Barri Gotic’ (Gothic Quarter) you can still see Roman ruins above ground, there’s the remains of an aqueduct as well as parts of the city walls including a city gate, both of which are near the Cathedral. Even more stunning are those ruinsstill at their at their original level, expertly excavated and amazingly preserved within the Museu d’Historia de la Ciutat (‘City History Museum’) - the most extensive subterranean Roman ruins in the World. You can almost feel them beneath your feet as you wander the maze of winding, shadowed streets so typical of the Gothic Quarter that surround the Cathedral. Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, has the seat of their government – the ‘Generalitat’ – on the site of the original Roman forum, and the Cathedral is built on the site of Roman temple (as well as a Moorish mosque).
The ‘Old Town’ complete with La Rambla, or rather ‘Las Ramblas‘ – there are five of them in total end to end – is Read the rest of this entry »
