Miami Pension Barcelona

... We could've taken a bus up here?", to which she tersely replied "That would defeat the purpose of a night walk."

Moments later, noticing the gondolas taking people further up Montjuic, I made another similar joke, to test her limits - "Again, that defeats the purpose of a night walk." She confirmed what I suspected - Portland girl defeats the purpose of sarcasm, of trying to make a joke, and of having a fun conversation. I ...

... soon as we were up at
this very high point I was ready to come down. My friend took the
pictures he wanted to and then we headed down for a tapas lunch. I
then had to head back to Sitges.

Upon arriving I hung out by the pool
for awhile and then defuzzed and chopped about 25 small peaches.
They were from the tree next to the pool and were for a peach crumble
that Lucas was making to be served at the end of a Thai feast of Tom
Yum Soup, Green ...

... taking the metro to the massive 120,000 seat Camp Nou stadium.  When we arrived at the metro stop, we were met with a massive crowd of FC Barcelona fans!  We made quick stop at a kebab stand for a beer and some food before entering the stadium.  I really did not know where the seats that I purchased were, but they turned out to be excellent!   The seats were in the front row  of the upper level directly behind the goal!   The feeling at the stadium is ...

... to offer. The meat was a little disturbing because like the heads and everything were still on the chickens and cows heads and different parts of the body, it was very cross and made me lost my appetite for meat at least for the day. We walked around some more and then all stopped to get some ice cream. The ice cream was very good. I got some caramel something the guys got something else and Ness got some type of waffle something with chocolate that looked really good too. After that ...

... back to our place. So that was pretty much my day. Tonight Nihar and I are going out for a Catalan dinner with his friend that lives here, so we will tell you about that when we get back!So we are back from dinner and we have to thank Angel for his hardwork in finding a place that makes vegetarian paella and we also ordered a Catalan vegetable dish as an appetizer. Nihar and I would both have to agree that it was delicious!!! Thank you Angel ...

We headed to Barcelona on today. First time to fly ryanair. They fly out of Brno directly to Barcelona, or so they say... They actually fly into Girona, which is an hour from Barcelona. There are buses that run back and forth, so we decided to do it. We knew that it wouldn't be a problem on the flight into spain, but it could be on the flight out, as we left at 7 a.m. This meant we'd have to catch the 4 a.m. bus. After a little thought, we decided we'd check ...

... and added on and will make the others look small. Brent and I walked other areas of the city and saw some more museums then hung out at the beach and I prepared to leave for the French Riviera the next morning while he plans to wait in Barcelona until his luggage and new bank card arrive, then he will come and meet up with me where ever I am at.

We left our hostel early in the morning, before anyone else was up, to decide what we wanted to do as we walked and examined at our map. We were sure visiting the Sagrada Familia would take an entire day so we decided today was as good as any day to do so. On the way we could visit the Batlló house and The Pedrera, both of Gaudi's famous architectural works in the center of Barcelona. We crossed Plaza Catalunya and continued to walk on Paseo de ...

Well Barcelona was very pretty and kept up with the Spanish theme of small winding streets with various smells and few words I understood. However, due to the simple fact that I never fell asleep in Spanish class I was able to get Reece and I out of a bind with our train tickets. Few of the attendants spoke English but with my broken and terrible Spanish ...

... and we went out for tapas and drinks. He told me about this cruise he did from Genoa (Italy) to Barcelona that was fun so that put the possibility of doing that into my head. I checked the weather for Andorra and southern France for the next several days and saw lots of rain in the forecast (hiking and beach in the rain aren't so much fun), so the cruise was sounding better. Thursday turned out to be sunny...not so warm, but sunny. I got myself a ticket for ...