This starts our second day on the Viking Sky, but we have not yet left the port in Barcelona. Departure is scheduled for about 5 pm. In the meantime, Viking provides a free bus/walking tour of Barcelona that leaves at 10 am.
After a great night’s sleep in the king-sized beds in the stateroom, we had a full breakfast and boarded the bus for our city tour. The bus tour took us by the beaches which were man-made for the Olympics in 1992. They showed us the houses made for the olympic athletes and the golden fish sculpture at the beach made by Frank Gehry.
The bus ride gave a pretty good overview of much of the city through which we already walked and ended with a walking tour of the cathedral that we had not yet found.
The cathedral, from the Latin word "cathedra" meaning seat, requires a Bishop in residence and a blessing from the Pope. A basilica is blessed by the Pope but there is no Bishop.
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| Black Madonna and Child raises interesting questions |
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| Modern day candle lighting - battery operated pseudo flames. |
Following the walking tour, we returned to the ship for a brief time and then we all walked around the beach front until time to return to the ship for departure. The beach front has some amazingly large private yachts and sailboats and it seems to be a site for selling souvenirs to the tourists. There are numerous places for eating and drinking but not much else of interest. At the terminus of the street called La Rambla, there is a large monument of Christopher Columbus on top of a pedestal pointing to the New World. He is also pointing to where our ship is docked so we wouldn’t get lost. :)
The ship departs for Gibraltar with a sea day tomorrow (Monday 4/19).
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