Since this week I posting a Fun Food Friday restaurant review, I’m going to treat today’s trek through Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter more like a Fun Photo Friday. I hope you don’t mind. But, on the plus side, since today’s article concentrates on images then you won’t have to waste too much time reading my text. So, without further adieu, here is today’s photo gallery/slide show. Click on any image to enlarge it and engage the slide show:
Today and Wednesday I’m not going to waste a lot of your time with text, as no matter where you turn in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter you’re going to find some fun stuff to see and photograph. Take for instance the tiny door pictured below. I positioned Ursula next two if for size perspective. Beyond graffiti decorated doors, there’s just a lot of rich details in this area going back many, many centuries.
Local Color on a Small Door
Fortunately, the streets were mostly empty. That allowed me to take some great shots without people adorned in bright colors traipsing through the frame. The light rain wetting the streets didn’t hurt, either:
Wet Streets make Great Shots
Here we have a rather charming fountain:
Gothic Quarter Fountain
Here in the Gothic Quarter you’ll find present day intruding upon the past:
A Touch of Red; A Streak of Green
Beyond that you’ll find fun architectural details around every corner:
Pigeons LOVE this Place
I’ll leave you with the following photos until Wednesday’s continuation into the Gothic Quarter:
We have one more week of Barcelona before I begin my transatlantic crossing series aboard Harmony of the Seas. See these links for a review of Harmony: Part 1; Part 2; Fun Photo Friday Harmony favorites). But when this series concludes next Friday, it won’t be with the usual Fun Photo Friday. Instead, it will conclude with a Fun Food Friday review of a truly great Barcelona restaurant, one which we visited on each of our three nights in this wonderful city. So, until next Monday, here’s is today’s third installment of Barcelona favorites: