Florida and Iberia, Spring 2018: Barcelona Bus Tour

Because Barcelona's so huge, a bus tour was a must for me, plus the weather made it easy to choose the open-air adventure.

Roman ruins-turned-cathedral

Roy Lichtenstein, one of Holm's favorite artists, made this for the last Olympics go-round.

Miles and miles of excellent seaside promenade

Architect Frank Gehry's cool fish

Very cool Torre Glòries, opened 2005, 38-floor office building

FCB, Football Club Barcelona, stadium and shrine

Statue dedicated to Joan Miro at the site of what's to be a park and museum dedicated to her.

Was fascinated that this bullring has been lifted a full story and made into a huge shopping complex.

Olympic Stadium

Olympic cauldron

Communications tower adjacent to Olympic Park. Artist designed it to resemble "an athlete receiving a medal."

Catalonia Art Museum plaza, just stunning. Wish we'd had time to get here.

Near the cruise port, funicular tower and a sculpture supposedly resembling ocean waves.

Obligatory statue of Columbus, Barcelona's favorite son.

Entry to 1888 World's Fair site

Must have been 50 of these guys selling purses at this square. A minute after I took this, police had all of them pack it up and move along, and you could tell these guys were used to that - each of their display cloths was fashioned with ropes so one tug pulled all the edges together into giant Santa sacks, which the guys then slung over their shoulders.