Sunday 4th October - Walk Down to Placa du Sol for Lunch The apartment wasn't ready and the cleaner had about 2 hours work to finish and have it ready for us. I have to say that the people who left this morning left the place in a mess. So realistically speaking we just dropped our bags after Patricia gave us a couple of maps and told us everything that we had to do whilst we are in Barcelona. We went down to the corner and turned into Placa du Sol. The o...

Sunday 4th October - Gracia Apartment When we got off the train we had to pay 50c to use the toilets and I rang Patricia who was going to check us into the apartment. She said that she would meet us outside and we got a taxi. We arrived and unloaded and stood on the pavement and waited for Patricia to arrive which she did driving a Volvo so checking people into apartments can't be too bad a job? The street Torrent de Olla 111, is one way and quite narrow ...

Sunday 4th October - Perpignan to Barcelona by Train We got up and went down to the lobby of the hotel and had a coffee and croissant to save going out into the street to get the same! We packed up and had to get everything into our two cases and the carryon case and the backpack because we were travelling by train and had no car to just load things into the boot. This was achieved easily but would not have happened if Jannie had not sent five parcels home s...

Saturday 3rd October - The Long Road Back to Eden. Our walk back through the Old Town took us to an area where the Medieval Folk were dancing and while we watched them for a bit realised that you would have to be passionate about this sort of dancing in order to be involved. There appeared to be no rhyme or reason to some of the moves but it must have been real as they all did the same thing. Even the kids joined in. We passed a group that were sword fighting a...

Saturday 3rd October - Medieval Festival in the Square Gambetta Square Gambetta was set up with stalls around the outside and the feature of most of these was that the goods for sale were done in the old traditions. The people that maned the stalls were all dressed in medieval costume and some of these were very elaborate. We stopped at an ale stall that was already very well patronised so I lined up to try an Old Ale. I got my glass and moved to a bench with a...