The Travels of Eric and Lorna

After the maritime museum, we walked around the marina area. The original port building. Looks like it's going to be pretty cool when the renovation is complete. A better shot of the CC monument. A nice view of Montjuic. The 1% harbor. More of the 1% harbor. Later on you got into the real yachts. Holy crap. Some of these things were the size of a naval cruiser. This is the .01% harbor. A panorama of the super yacht harbor.

We also went to the Barcelona Maritime Museum . This amazing museum is located in the old shipyard building dating to the 1400s. The building itself is really cool, and the displays are great. Entrance to the Maritime Museum. The star exhibit is an exact replica of a 16th century slave galley. It was made in 1972 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of The Battle of Lepanto (really important if you've never heard of it ).  If this was the only thing in the museum it would honsetly have been worth the very modest (4.5 euros) entrance fee, but the rest of the museum is great as well, and is very good about having displays include English descriptions. Anyway, on the the galley, apparently an exact replica of a specific galley that fought in the battle. Here's a model of the ship. The rudder. Stern shot. The nice part of the ship. The very not nice part of the ship.

Barcelona Cathedral Another shot of the remnants of the aqueduct. This is an antiques market that takes place in the plaza in front of the cathedral. Aqueduct and a busker. This facade was decorated by Picasso. The Christopher Columbus monument. It is here because Barcelona is where he reported to Ferdinand and Isabella when he returned from the New World.