Barcelona - for a day.

Barcelona!

Arrive in outer suburbs of Barcelona, and spend an hour trying to find a campground, even trying a car park in the middle of Barca… Finally settle on Camping Masnou just SE of the city. Looks proper dodgy but they let us park wherever and we do a heap of Googling. There is an ugly old woman with too much makeup going around with a stick poking around in all the skip bins followed by about 15 cats. Not sure if she is getting more cats out of the bins, or shooing rats and mice out for the cats. Either way I haven’t seen this many cats for a long time…

27/03 Catch the train into the city after some advice on where to go and a brief lesson on Spanish Architecture (‘Gaudi, you don’t know Gaudi?’), we jump on the Barcelona Hop on-Hop off Tour and spend the day looking around Barca from the top of a bus. Should have gotten out and taken more pics and had a look around, but we didn’t have that much time and I was being lazy. We end the tour in the shopping precinct and Purdy spends 1.5 hours looking for clothes. She spends 45 mins in one shop alone and I sit outside and watch Barca go by, wondering what I’d do if I lost her… Talk her into heading back to Cashies to buy a camera tripod, and we jump on the Metro. Stop at a bar for a beer, snacks and WC, and them on to Cashies. Buy a tripod finally, and have a look around before we get back on the train and get as far as the city before I realize that Purdy has left her bag somewhere! Panicking she runs back to the train and we get back to the bar where she thinks she left it in the WC. She asks the barman on the way in if he’s seen it, but he says no, she runs in the toilet and comes out empty handed! I (nicely) ask the girl at the bar and she says yeah no worries, I’ll get it from out the back for you. The guy comes out wearing Purdys sunnies that were in the bag so he clearly knew what was going on. All's well that ends well and we back on the train a little deflated and getting tired. Dinner at the Marina opposite the campground, nice seafood Paella but they overcharge us and the waitress is a proper mole. Should have complained, too tired.

All in all Barca is really nice clean city. I think we could spend some time here and really enjoy it.

Gaudi?



Sagrada Familia

Another happy church scene!



Barca harbour. Another cracking day in Spain.