Final Day Barcelona

24 Apr - Day 40

We took the metro to the Espanya stop where a shopping complex Arena had been built into a coleseum type structure. Marcus wanted to go to the Rock (as in music, not geology) Museum. It was not open.

The views from the top of the shopping mall was pretty good, as they had a circular observation platform with restaurants on the rooftop.

Next we walked towards the National Arts (MNAC) museum passing some Venetian type towers. The MNAC had paintings, scluptures and frescos from the Gothic, Romantic, Baroque and Modern periods. All housed in a very nice building.

After a bite to eat, we walked over to the Olympic Park behind the museum. The plaza area was huge with good views of the city, and housed an interesting looking cell phone tower (on the left).

We checked out the Olympic stadium which hosted the 1992 Olympics, and subequently hosted rock bands like Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteens and the like.

We took the furnicular down the road back into the city and walked through La Rambla street, towards Barcelona's very own Arc de Triomph. By this time both were tired and we took the tram and metro home.

25 Apr - Day 41

Happy ANZAC day everyone. A rare weekday one, so one actually gets a day off work, I was thinking.

We took the metro to the Royal Palace near Barcelona University. This palace houses the ceramic and fabric museum, which did not interest us. So we walked past various university faculties towards the home ground stadium of the Barcelona Football Club.

It is a huge stadium, we saw gate 101. There is a tour of the stadium, changing rooms, press room, and the clubs museum if you are willing to part with 22 euros each. We didn't and instead went into the mega shop.

The shops sells everything branded Barcelona football club. Shirts, umbrells, soccer balls, mugs etc. They have a facility to print your own name and number on the back of a Barca shirt if you didn't like the Messi #10 one.

It has been a high mileage week in Barcelona so we went home after lunch, picking up a TV dinner of paella and lasagne on the way.