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...

Tuesday 6th October - Down Town for Tapas at Catalunya. Last night we walked down town to a Tapas Restaurant that we had been recommended and Jane & Paul had been there a few times a couple of weeks ago. It was still very hot and we walked slowly so as not to break into a sweat. We eventually got to the bar and put our name down for a table as there was a 20 minute wait which turned into a 35 minute one and we got a wine and a beer from the bar. Our name...

Tuesday 6th October - The Walk on Down to Get the Metro Back Up! It had got very hot and we found out that it was 28 deg so we walked on the shady side of the road all of the way down to the Arc de Troimf which is at the entrance to a huge green space. We walked and sat and walked some more and found another seat. We walked through to the only museum that is free in Barcelona and it is the El Born Cultural Centre. It is inside a huge iron framed building tha...

Tuesday 6th October - Tapas Lunch and a Beer. We eventually got out of the Sagrada Familia and sort a place to have lunch as we had spent two hours in the place. It was very hot and windy and just off to the side of the Sagrada was a small street with only one spare table at a place near the top end. Estrella Beer. The bread and the croquettes were great but we weren't fussed with the small green capsicums that had been charred - they were a bit on the...