My final contribution for this month is a real bobby dazzler – The Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona. It was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1929 by Carles Buigas.
My daughter and I headed out to see the fountain in action on a Friday night in October. There seemed to be hundreds of people watching, but we managed to squeeze in and get a few photographs. We didn’t hear any music though so maybe we were too early for that combination and just after 9 pm we decided to leave and find a restaurant for dinner before everyone else had the same thought.
It is not operating every night in the autumn and winter months so check before you go and be prepared for crowds. However, it truly is magical.
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As this is a post equivalent to a New Year’s Eve fireworks display, I shall wish all my blogging family a
Happy New Blogging Year
and I wish you all success, happiness, health and wealth and fun throughout 2017. Is it really seventeen years since the Millennium? I crept out of the house before dawn on that morning to photograph a sunrise. Not a very interesting one I’m afraid. But I did capture seven swans a-swimming…
Earth laughs in flowers 
I’ve never encountered the term “bobby dazzler” before! Very cool fountain, love the rainbow colours.
Now you have said that I wonder where it comes from? OK – back to Google…
Well that was informative! Apparently a northern term, but no-one knows where bobby comes from AND there was a program called that in Australia in 1977 – probably before your time. I feel much better now… 😀
LOL, decades before my time! I didn’t come here until 1999.
So stunning!!! Hope you will have a wonderful new year too!
Spectacular, Jude. I’d go klick-klicking wild at this sight! 🙂
I did!
🙂
I had the same reaction as you, Jude …. 17 years already!! How is that even possible?!
Looking forward to a wonderful new year full of opportunities for adventure and fun 🙂
And no injuries!!
I’m all for that!!
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Wow! What a fabulous fountain – I’d love to see it ‘in the flesh’. Something else to add to my list…
Barcelona is well worth a trip – maybe avoid in the summer though. Late September maybe? Or even April.
Yes, that sounds like a good plan – cooler temperatures and fewer tourists!
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