So, this morning we had the test for the last of “B1” sequence of (4) courses, and I’m amazed to report that I got an A-. Whoohoo! Let’s just say that I got lucky with some of my guesses, since it turned out that things that were on the test I didn’t study, and other things I studied weren’t on the test.
Anyway, there’s a two-week break for Easter at the language school. I’m mentioning this only to say that I’m hoping next week to have time to get the rest of the photos from Barcelona sorted. Finally. Since I didn’t get to it yesterday, and I didn’t have time for it today after the test.
But, as a preview of things to come next week, here’s a tiny bit of Roman Barcelona:
Roman Gate, Barcelona
I like to think of the bikes and kids in the foreground as giving you a sense of scale of that gate, rather than just getting in the way of my photo …
It’s a pretty darn big structure, actually. With my camera, which has a fairly wide lens, from where I was standing I couldn’t fit it all in one photo. So, what you see above is a stitched-together vertical panorama.
Anyway, the ruins of Roman Barcelona are sitting more or less behind — but underneath — that gate and wall. There’s a really nice exhibit/museum that you can walk through down among the ruins. Photos coming next week of that… along with more about food, art and a day-trip excursion to another town near Barcelona. All that, plus my oft-promised look at Barcelona tourism’s pride and joy: the architecture of Gaudì.
See you Monday.
Wow. Enormous. What a monument. Lovely windows. those windows look like they might be from a later age on the top=Gothic maybe. Beautiful picture. Did you use the stitch program with camera and use 30% of picture to use as lap over? I don’t have details just a fragment of what i remember.
Without the humans in front, I doubt if I would have thought it that huge since it looks like so many other old buildings and such.
Great idea to have those urchins in the foreground.
Another grand old edifice.
I have never seen a gate like that, let alone a 2,000 year old Roman Gate. Oh, by the way, nice work on your German course!
Thanks for th comments. Yes, that is indeed an enormous gate.
@Kathy: the top part was definitely added on later, those windows definitely seem Gothic. For the stiching, I just used Photoshop Elements – I don’t know what percentag I typically use for the overlap, I’m not very precise when I take the photos that I want to switch together. i just eyeball it and hope I get enough overlap when look at them later on the computer. This is unusual for me – I don’t often do a vertical stiching like that (usually I’m doing the wider panorama stichiing). But this gate was huge.
@Mom – yes, I really do think the people and bikes help the viewer to understand how enormous it was.
@Stan: Thanks re the German course! 🙂