Pension Girona

... skeptical of our Ryanair flights since we'd heard mixed reviews of the budget airline, but everything went fine! We walked around Girona (it's a small town) for a few hours today before taking the train to Barcelona.  It is a pretty little town, ...

... a whole day. (This was poor planning on our part though: with hindsight, we would have stayed on in Barcelona with daytrips to Girona, Olot and Besalu.) Of course, it did give us one last opportunity to try one of the restaurants in MoVida's guide to food ...

... (friend come translator) that i haven't got a place to stay yet and they told me they'd help look for one. So they found a pension in Girona on the outskirts of town, (a pensions is like a hostel) and for 1 night it cost 44 Eros which was ridiculous ! ...

... so I just went along for the ride.  Prior to arriving in Barcelona, I booked our first night into a hostel called Pension Picasso simply because I figured we would be shattered from our Contiki experience and we might not want to waste time and ...

... following a river, but was actually some of the harder climbing of the day... Stayed at a cheap camping outside of the city.  Now we have a Pension (cheap hotel) in Granada, planning on an Alhambra visit tomorrow morning and then onward to ...

... in full force shooting bean bags and trying to control the crowds. We were in the middle of it trying to get to the pension that we were staying at. There was broken glass all over the streets. We were a little nervous as people were telling us to ...