La Rambla

Not too far from our hotel, down a myriad of shop filled alleyways, is the famous street La Rambla. It is a wide tree lined street for walking in the centre with a narrow lane on eir side for traffic. It is filled with flowers and souvenirs stalls and cafes and buskers and thousands of people. It leads to the marina at one end which is the way we walked. Markets and shops and Orange tree filled squares and churches and monuments until finally the grand monument at the end towering over everything. Christopher Columbus adorns the top, and various figures and objects are depicts telling the story of Spain's maritime history.

The sun was shining on us warmly which we so enjoyed after the past week of cold weather, and we stopped for breakfast outside a little cafe at a table in the filtered sunlight under an orange tree before going to the Maritime Museum.  We thought we would see the rich history of the Spanish Galleon, but no, maybe that is eleswhere, it was more a storytelling place of Spain's relationship with the sea over the ages, and with only replicas there to tell the story, but it was interesting and we enjoyed it.

As we wandered back along La Rambla in the afternoon we spied a market but the press of people there was too much for us, we'll have to go back when we are fresh and it is not so busy.