ANNIE NORRIS PHOTOS: Spring Break trip to France & Spain, Dali Museum Photos

This is Al Capone's Cadillac with a very large nude sculpture standing on the hood. It is in the center of a courtyard. Notice that the little boy is just awestruck! Also notice the mural in the next room in the background.



This is the mural in the background of the other photo, and by far, it is the largest work of art in the museum.



Here Annie got the museum tower in all its glory. Notice the eggs on top, and those little dots on the side represent loaves of bread. Dali was an interesting guy, and his museum is in Figureas, Spain, just up the coast from Barcelona.

ANNIE NORRIS PHOTOS: Spring Break trip to France & Spain, more Barcelona Photos

Gaude designed several different types of columns for Parc Gurel. Here a supported walkway sort of vanishes into the trees.



Another Annie Norris shot of walkway columns at Parc Gurel.



Besides Sam, this show shows 3 different levels where people can be in this part of the Parc.



On the large center "square" of the proposed Barcelona Suburb, Gaude designed these curved benches for folks to sit & socialize.



Almost the most famous of Gaude's sculptures is this Guade Lizard, just down from the market plaza he designed.

ANNIE NORRIS PHOTOS: Spring Break trip to France & Spain, Barcelona Photos

By far Gaude's most ambitious project is shown here in Annie's photo. It was started in the late 1890s, and is still not finished, though they are still working over 100 years later. This is the Church of the Sacred Family, in the middle of downtown Barcelona. Nice photo, Annie!



There is a special Catalan round group folk dance that they do at festivals, and at Easter, and this statue commemorates that dance. It is near the best overlook of Barcelona, near the ocean. Annie took this photo.



This is one of the most tourist photographed views of Barcelona, and here annie got several tourists ohotographing it.



Annie actually took a photo of our hotel, a very nice one, on Plaza de Espania in Barcelona.

ANNIE NORRIS PHOTOS: Spring Break trip to France & Spain, Pont du Gard Photos

Annie took this photo from our picnic spot, just under the Pont, on the River Gard, in Provence, Southern France.



This is the Roman Aqueduct, called Pont du Gard, that looms just over where we ate lunch the day we visited.

ANNIE NORRIS PHOTOS: Spring Break trip to France & Spain, Nimes Photos

Annie got this photo of Jeffrey telling our group all about the old Roman Temple in Nimes.



This is a good photo of the inside of the Roman Arena in Nimes. If you look carefully, you can see some of us standing on top!



Here is Jeffrey telling the group about bull fighting, next to the matador statue next to the Roman arena in Nimes.

ANNIE NORRIS PHOTOS: Spring Break trip to France & Spain, Paris Photos

This is Annie's photo of Napoleon's tomb. I wonder if he is really buried there? She was touring the Invalides while some of the rest of us were going thru Rodin's garden.



The Invalides Palace was set up as an old soldier's home for veterans of the Napoleonic wars, and eventually as the burial site of Napoleon I.



Annie got a good photo of the Eiffel Tower from across the river at the Trocedero. This is always a great tourist photo opportunity.



Annie got this photo of Notre Dame Cathedral, and most of Notre Dame Squate.

DAY9:DALI MUSEUM, FIGUREAS PART 2

Jeff & I stand by a great piece of political graffiti in Figureas. So let me understand; Catalonia is or is not part of Spain? What do you say, Jeff?



Here are Lula & Mark relaxing by a Dali statie.



You can look at this Dali piece,and see either the individual blocks, or you can see a picture of Abe Lincoln. What do you see?

DAY9:DALI MUSEUM, FIGUREAS

Salvadore Dali's humor is weird. Here we see a nude, wearing a greek helmet, standing on the hood of Al Capone's Cadillac.



This is another view of the Al Capone Nude. Strange, eh what!



The whole inside of the museum is open to the air, and there are niches with a bunch of these fold-painted manikins standing in each one.



As you approach the Dali museum, this is the view you see on the roof>

DAY9:BARCELONA, MORE BUS TOUR, PARK GUREL..

The only shot I got of the Sacred Family Church shows Don & Christine in front of it. Great Shot!



Here are Susan & some of the "girls" next to Gaudi's Lizard. They sure look happy!

DAY9:BARCELONA, MORE BUS TOUR, PARK GUREL..

This is the "Gingerbread House" gatehouse that Gaudi designed for his suburb at Park Gurel.



Susan really liked the Gaudi lizard, but they would not let her bring it home! Drat!



Mark & Lula sit on the Gaudi Plaza, which was designed as the centerpiece of his suburban community.



Oh, Look, someone go a photo of me relaxing! A nice Gaudi bench.

DAY9:BARCELONA BUS TOUR.

I m not sure what it was, but something sure made Dee happy. I like that smile!



Some how, the boy in black appeared on our trip, and is shown here with his mom at the Barcelona overlook! Hi guy!




Marta & Brittany sure make a pretty picture with Barcelona in the background!



Here they are: Don-Vhristine-Barcelona... oh, no, that was the OTHER movie!

DAY8: MORE BARCELONA:

This is not a good photo, sorry, but this is a shot of some of the performers at our Flamenco Evening, which we had at a restaurant on the Ramblas, starting at 11:30 on our next to the last evening in Barcelona.



Here is the skyline of Barcelona, seen from the catalan National Museum, looking past our hotel, towards the surrounding hills. Barcelona is in a bit of a hollow, and cannot expand out like many other cities. It is still the 2nd largest city in Spain, 1.5 million in town, 3 million in the total area.

DAY8: MORE BARCELONA: CATHEDRAL

On the Barcelona Cathedral, there was an interesting series of very narrow walks, and little doors through the flying buttresses. It seems like a very dangerous walk to me!



We had a little free time while some of our folks attended Easter Services in the Cathedral. (How often does a regular American catholic get a chance to do that?) Down the street from the cathedral, was this unique looking building that Susan & I went to see. It was closed for Easter, but houses a very modern market. there were street vendors selling jewelery just outside. Very nice stuff.



We went into the Cathedral (no photos, of course), and into the cloister behind the cathedral, mostly to visit & look at the guard geese. inside, however, is a very small statue of St George, killing the dragon, which happened somewhere nearby, which is something I did not know!



The Barcelona Cathedral is really part of a series of buildings in the old Gothic Barrio. This is a bridge between 2 of the buildings. It sort of reminds me of the bridge of Sighs in Venice, but I suspect this one was used by priests, monks, nuns, and other church people, to safely move about the complex.

DAY8: MORE BARCELONA: THE RAMBLAS EXPERIENCE

This is the Farmer's Market, off to the opposite side of the Ramblas than the Cathedral. It was close early on Easter Morning, but open later. This is where Jeffrey's favorite Barcelona Restaurant is.



The Ramblas is a great walking tour on it's own, but some of the side streets hold special treasures. Here in the Plaza Real is a collection of street lamps designed by Gaudi himself. Here I am standing underneath one. The Plaza is small, but has many nice palm trees, and lots of sidewalk cafes and people.



I got a photo of Don, also standing next to a Gaudi streetlamp. This day there was a street market for stamp and postcard collectors. By the time I got back, they had closed, though there was a guy selling Coca-Cola collectables still there.



There are many old, beautiful buildings along the Ramblas, though Spain had a civil war in 1936 that wrecked many parts of town, so just what is really old & what is re-constructed is sometimes a bit of a puzzle.



This building holds a Chinese restaurant, and has Art Neuveau-style decorations. Very interesting, as well as unusual.

DAY7: BARCELONA!

In Barcelona, our hotel was right on the Plaza de Espania, almost in the middle of town. Just up from the hotel was an area that was built for a world's fair, perhaps 1929. Every nite they have several light & water shows in the fountain in front of the largest pavilian, with is now the national Museum of Catalan art. We were there before dark, so we just had music & water, but it was spectacular!



The grand pavilian, shown here, is an art museum, with a great over view of central Barcelona, including our hotel (seen in a later shot), and the mountains surrounding Barcelona. It has a very nice collection of Catalan Impressionist painters.