Saturday 10th October - Placa Sant Jaume Located at the center of the original Roman settlement of Barcino, this plaza is home to the Ajuntament, (City Hall) and the Palau de la Generalitat (seat of the Catalan regional government). If the locals have a problem with the Local Government then they go to the building on one side of the square. If the problem is with Spain then they go to the building on the other side. There were lots of people waiting a...

Saturday 10th October - Last Day in Barcelona. We had our usual breakfast and headed out for coffee. We hadn't been able to book the bike tour with Fat Tyre Bikes online and Jannie was very sceptical that by just going to the meeting place we would get on the tour. But we set off and had our usual coffee at SMS and then headed for the Metro Station to get the train to Liceu from where we walked to the meeting place All tours meet at Plaça Sant Jaume i...

Friday 9th October - Lunch and a Walk Back to Born. We shared three plates of tapas and had a beer each for €10. And afterwards we walked through the streets looking for the shop that had Campers shoes. We got to the shop and they were too expensive so we headed all of the way back to Liceu where we had seen another shoe shop and we were in luck. Because we didn't get lost along the way that man deserves a beer so we sort a beer stop in a small plaza ...

Friday 9th October - Castell de Montjuic. We payed for two seniors to get into the castle the princely sum of €6 for the two of us and apart from the magnificient view decided that it wasn't worth even that paultry sum. The Castell de Montjiuc is an old fort that dominates the southern heights of the mountain and enjoys commanding views out over the Mediterranean and to the north a wonderful view of Barcelona. The fort dates in its present form from the...

Friday 9th October - The Walk to the Cable Car? We headed away from Liceu Station and headed towards where we thought the Cable Car Station was. Our biggest problem is that the maps only name the main roads. Anyway we saw a sign on one of the many corners pointing to Montjuic so we set off uphill past a few minor roads and were looking at a map when an old guy gestured that he could help us. Between the three of us not being able to converse he told us to fo...