Thursday 8th October - Park Guell by Metro. All of the drips had stopped in the morning and we had breakfast and then we wandered up the road to have a coffee before getting the Metro for just one stop before we tackled the hill up to Park Guell. There were even three sets of escalators to help us up the steepest bits and we stopped to catch our breaths at St Joseph's Church. This was built to acknowledge Joseph as everything else everywhere was in memory o...

Wednesday 7th October - The Born Area to Catalunya Metro Station. We had skirted through part of this area a couple of days ago and wanted to have another looksee. The area is all pedestrian ways and full of all sorts of shops and cafes. I tried on a couple of pairs of shoes and hold me back they both fitted and I bought myself a pair of Spanish shoes. Now the backpack was heavy and we were out of the wind and it was getting hotter by the minute. We were sud...

Wednesday 7th October - Off to the beach for Lunch and Maybe a Swim? We got up out of the Metro Station and walked the wrong way but soon enough we turned around and headed back down past the port and past all of these restaurants along the Mall de la Barcelonetta. There had to be 50 of them one after the other all touting for business. Around the corner at the end and here was the beach and also the wind. We found an eatery right on the sand and sat one ...

Wednesday 7th October - Off to the Beach and getting the Metro. We walked up the road to go to Fontana Metro Station as we hadn't seen this part of our Gracia District. We stopped for coffee and the grumpy old guy who couldn't, or wouldn't speak English served us and went back inside. We finally got the coffees and it was not too bad and sweet tasting. It's a nice occupation just sitting on the sidewalk watching all of the people going about their daily busi...

Wednesday 7th October - Dinner out at SMS Restaurant on C d'Asturies. Tomorrow we had decided to go up to Park Guell which is a city park and originated in 1900 when Count Eusebi Guell bought the tree covered hillside of El Carmel and hired Gaudi to create a miniature city of houses for the very wealthy. But I'm getting ahead of myself, last night we were preparing to go up the road for dinner to SMS Restaurant and it started to rain. We took the umbrella...