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...

Friday 9th October - Coffee and Metro to Montjuic. We had to be up early as Teo had arranged for the insurance guys and the builder to have a look at the damage to the ceiling from a couple of nights ago. Duly the doorbell rang and although there is a phone we don't know how to work it to open the downstairs door? Eventually a chap and a woman arrived at our door and wanted to see the damage. Knowing we were expecting people Jan asked these two, who spoke no...

Thursday 8th October - All downhill for lunch. We viewed the gatehouses and headed off down the hill to the main road back towards Lesseps metro station. We both felt like a sandwich or a bread roll and ended up with a type of pizza that had cheese and bacon and pineapple on it and it was great. We also had potato bravos and a coffee as we had had our beer back up on the mountain. After lunch we walked all of the way downhill back to our apartment. Most o...

Thursday 8th October - Hansel and Gretel Gatehouses. We left the Gaudi house and wandered our way down the avenue on which were dozens of hawkers with their wares all laid out on canvas sheets trying to make a buck. Same old stuff and same old prices. As we were making our way down we noticed several hawkers quickly pack up their stuff and walk into the trees along the side of the road. We thought that this was a bit funny as we didn't think that they stoppe...