Greetings from the Hotel Raco del Pi in the Gotic area of Barcelona. Geri out sending a text or two while I update this, both of us with a welcome glass of cava (sparkling wine) in hand. And her sneaking a cigarette too. :-)
I had forgotten how little you get for your Euro with Lufthansa's business class. The food great as always though. I'll be posting photos later.
I also took a photo of th cover of their inflight magazine. A canoe on a misty lake. The story inside was about Montreal and Toronto. We are being stereotyped. :-)
Barcelona airport is actually quite nice, but an awful lot of shopping And no Christ Watches and Jewelry in sight. :-(
Not much could be seen on the trip into town. Oddly, McDonald's background colour here seems to be green rather than red. Shaded parking at Carrefour stores and lots and lots of palm trees. Hard to tel what the temp is as it is sunny, but it feels like mebbe 20-22. Beautiful.
We took the bus even though the train would have been free with a transit pass because Geri still feeling a bit off (she suffers from motion sickness and her meds wore off suring the overnight flight from Toronto to Frankfurt). Her right rotator cuff is also a problem and she has that arm in a sling. So all-in-all blowing a few and taking the bus, which was right there, rather than walking for another 5 minutes seemed like a good call.
Once we got t Plaza de la Catalunya it was about a 10 minute walk into the Gotic district to get to the hotel. We couldn't have taken a cab if we wanted to as the whole area is pedestrian-only. Narrow alleys, lots of little bars and restraurants and shops. Looking forward to just walking the area within a couple of hunred metres of the hotel.
But first a shower, a change of clothes and perhaps a short nap.
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