Part of the Nut Brigade on La Rambla

Central Market near La Rambla

Barcelona

Walking down La Rambla near Plaza Cataluna. Weather was perfect.

Barcelona

After an hour delay in Ft. Lauderdale and a three hour delay in JFK we finally made it to Barcelona at 10 this morning local time. Just a funny aside...we were on the shuttle bus between terminals at JFK and there were two women who just got off the farm. One said to the other "look, it's a two floor plane." She never saw one before and wanted to know what country it was from! It was just an old 747. I actually slept after taking one Advil PM and they had to wake me for the awful breakfast mc muffin and banana.

We schlepped our luggage between terminals and got on the Metro then walked about seven blocks to our hotel. The hotel is nice and located in a very good area. The air conditioning is the European almost non-existent kind. We are out of the room all the time anyway. Today we walked La Rambla up and down the entire length twice, had an outdoor lunch, went to the central market and took a boat tour of the harbor. The Ramblas is an outdoor insane asylum, but that is part of it's charm. Have to rest now so we can go out to dinner at 10 PM. Restaurants don't open for dinner before that!

More to come.

Itineraries

Adventure of the Seas

Barcelona
Provence
Ibiza - overnight
Barcelona

Brilliance of the Seas

Barcelona
Cannes, Monte Carlo
Livorn0 -Florence, Pisa
Rome
Naples
Venice - overnight
Dubrovnik
Corfu
Barcelona

The remainder of the trip will be land travel in and around Catalonia, Spain with perhaps a trip to the principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees Mountains. My sister and her husband will be joining us and it will be nice to have travel companions.

Now for the packing nightmare. This time, I swear, I will not overpack!

Trip to Spain and Cruise

It is arranged. We are going back to Spain, but this time it is northeastern Spain and the Pyrenees Mountain area, Catalonia, Andorra and then down to Barcelona to pick up a 12-night cruise through the eastern Med. Right now I am trying to make reservations at a 15th century castle for lodging. I hope it is available.

Next Trip

I am diligently working on the next trip. More to come...