My wife and I spent the weekend just gone in Barcelona to visit the Christmas markets and just wander round the city. It’s the first time I’ve traveled overseas so close to Christmas and I was a little concerned that we might get caught up in a mass of travelers going home for Christmas, but everything went very smoothly and, while Barcelona was pretty busy, the travel was not.
We had a very nice time just wandering about the place, not doing anything in particular other than visiting shops and markets and eating nice food. We visited the Sagrada Familia as there was another Christmas market there, and I did consider going inside the cathedral, but I would have needed needed to book tickets in advance and there were none available to buy on the day as it was fully booked. My wife isn’t particularly interested in visiting cathedrals anyway, and I would have felt a little guilty if I was dragging her around the place while I took photos and admired the architecture, so I wasn’t too concerned about missing the opportunity. Maybe I’ll get another chance one day.
I shot a roll of colour 35mm film while there, but it will be after Christmas before that gets developed, but took some more photos with my Ricoh GRIII, including the one posted here today, so will share some of those once I’ve gone through them all.
This large star can be found in Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona, Spain. It is titled Origen and was created by Xevi Bayona and Àlex Posada. It projects light from the points of the star onto the facades of the buildings in the plaza.
Ricoh GRIII
Taken on 20 December 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 
Ha! I was just there in November. Feeling concerned about airport scanners and film, I had a couple rolls developed at Revelab. They are great. On the way back to the US I had two rolls that got scanned four different times, but survived with no noticeable degredation.
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I was able to get a hand check of my film on the way there (as the airport has the new CT scanners), but coming back I could see the scanners were still the older X-Ray machines, so I just let the film through those as it should be ok.
When I went to New York a few years ago some of my film went through x-ray scanners multiple times as they have them at the entrance to all the main attractions and there was no noticeable effect there either.
I think that, unless you have very high ISO film, or if it goes through a CT scanner, then it should be ok.
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