More Barcelona

June 14th, 2014 , 17:30

Slept in a bit after lots of wine with paella for dinner. Out of the hotel to find food – decided to take the metro today and head straight to Palau Guell, Gaudi’s early building. So off the metro and Joe spotted the Mercat de la Boqueria – large colourful, well stocked market – and he headed straight for it. We wandered about until we found a place to sit and have breakfast. I had an omelette, but Joe got Catalonya sausage and haricot beans, which was lovely if a bit garlicy. Then back around the market so Joe could get photos and finally off down La Ramblas to the Palau.

The Palau Guell is lovely. Really beautiful rooms, but very little furniture or decoration. Very focused on  the architecture and Gaudi’s design and work. I loved it, Joe got a bit bored.

Once Joe escaped from architecture tour, we headed toward Barcelonetta, which is where we spent most of our time when we were here before. We wanted to sit and have a drink, so we found a really nice little place. Cost a bit more due to the fact that it was a boat cruise which took us out of the harbour and along the coast for about an hour and a half. Very nice and a place to sit and have a cold drink.

Then the metro to the Segrada – we didn’t go in as it was packed, but walked around the outside noting the differences. I need to come back to see the work inside!

Now back at the hotel getting ready to head back out to La Ramblas to meet up with people and have dinner (tapas!)

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Barcelona Reprise

June 13th, 2014 , 21:48

So, Joe has been here for a week. Well, just outside Barcelona at his skillshare meeting. Had a good time, but didn’t quite manage to drink the bar dry – this time. Ah, he’s just explained that that may be because everyone brought loads of alcohol, probably because the last few skillshares they ran out. Not that they drink at these very important meetings.

And I was suppose to come to Barcelona today to join him. He was going to get here and check in then meet my train from Paris. Only the French are revolting and my train was cancelled. And I found out about it Thursday afternoon. So a frantic afternoon of checking trains and ferries and flights – ended up with an EasyJet flight leaving Friday afternoon. So I arrived a bit earlier than I was going to, but had to survive an entire EasyJet flight full of stag do ‘lads’. Yeah. But I made it and actually got to the hotel an hour before Joe. Cause his plan to meet me so I didn’t get lost? Yeah, he got lost.  He just said he didn’t get lost, he just ended up sort of in the wrong place.

All ended well and we found each other and have a very nice hotel room. We rested a bit and caught up on what we’d been doing, then headed out for a short walk and dinner. Had a nice paella and drinks, then a wander back seeing the fountains at Montjuc (Magic fountains of Montjuc), now back at the room. Joe is watching Netherlands beat Spain at football.

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