title A Barcelona Bus Tour, Catalonia, Spain - 25th October 2017 intro It's the last full day in Barcelona (for the boys, at least) so we do the hop-on/off bus tour. It's certainly epic and has many longeurs, but you do get to see quite a lot of the city. For a longer detour, we stop off at Gaudí's failed Garden City attempt of Parc Guëll for a look around, and dodge a bullet by not visiting La Sagrada Familia, which is utterly heaving, and instead drive right past the front for probably a better view than you could get on the ground. imgp8523 Louise and Harry imgp8526 Louise and Harry cram in to the tiny lift imgp8528 Back on the streets imgp8529 The three chimneys imgp8531 More street art and trees imgp8532 The Petro Gustá petrol station imgp8534 We wait at the bus stop for the tourist bus imgp8536 Some unusual three-wheelers roar around imgp8537 View from the top of the bus imgp8540 A Miro statue imgp8543 Some bloke dangles from a crane imgp8544 Cracked conrete building imgp8547 The marina, and the Museu d'Historia imgp8551 Barcelona's original water tower imgp8557 Barcelona's railway station imgp8560 Broken windows in the railway station imgp8568 Striking early 20th-century architecture imgp8570 Flags of Catalonia imgp8571 A 1960s office block imgp8577 Looking down the top of La Rambla imgp8578 The Manteros - the "blanket men" selling fake goods imgp8585 A funky street light imgp8589 A Gaudi building imgp8592 A Gaudi-designed apartment block imgp8596 Gaudi's last domestic apartment project imgp8597 Dong Fang - extreme Orient imgp8598 A cheese-and-meat delicatessen imgp8603 The Sagrada Familiá imgp8609 Architectural fruit imgp8611 The ever-present cranes imgp8615 Harry sticks his tongue out imgp8617 Food at Cafeteria El Bravo imgp8618 Fred does some leg stretches up a wall imgp8620 Harry and Isobel come out of Cafeteria El Bravo imgp8622 The boys choose postcards imgp8625 That's one way to get around town on a bike imgp8629 Some sort of derelict memorial imgp8631 The entrance to Parc Guëll imgp8634 The boys do some swinging imgp8638 More borderline-bizarre Gaudi architecture imgp8639 Scribed Aloa Vera leaves imgp8640 Roaming amongst Gaudi's columns imgp8644 A view of the city imgp8649 The boys meet a headless man imgp8651 More Parc Guëll randomness imgp8653 Some music occurs imgp8656 Harry and Isobel imgp8657 Fred is impressed by some rock hard ancient tree imgp8659 More Gaudi stuff imgp8663 The boys walk down some steps imgp8666 Back on the tour bus imgp8667 The bus goes through a low tunnel imgp8669 Freedom for Catalonia graffiti imgp8680 Millions of abandoned bus-tour earphones imgp8681 Fred and Isobel have the look of Ennui imgp8684 One of Barcelona's "hard" squares imgp8687 The Arenas de Barcelona imgp8689 The Plaça d'Espanya imgp8690 Nice graffiti imgp8691 Some sort of cinema multiplex imgp8695 A camera on a stick films a skateboarder imgp8696 Dudes in a square do some stunt skateboard filming imgp8699 Da Wheeze, Evelyn and the boys outside Oh! Pisos imgp8704 Isobel checks her bag in Da Gorls' apartment imgc8635 Gilly and Noddy outside Zodiaco imgc8636 Louise and Evelyn imgc8639 Noddy and Da Wheeze imgc8641 A tapas bar imgc8643 The gang (or most of it) imgc8644 Harry gets a cuddle imgc8645 Dan holds up his pint of beer imgc8647 The gang at the café imgc8652 Carrer de Blai imgc8655 Fred reads something imgc8657 Harry is all tuckered out imgc8658 A hillside cemetary on the way out to the airport imgc8662 The boys on the airport floor imgc8663 The boys build a fort out of luggage imgc8664 El Prat airport imgc8666 Harry and Fred hang around imgc8668 El Prat's marble floors look like water imgc8670 The boys play with Lego in our "bag fort" imgc8671 Harry is not that well hidden imgc8672 Out on the hot tarmac imgc8675 The "Olympic torch" control tower imgc8676 El Prat from the air imgc8680 Another plane streaks past, not that far away