Sunday 4th October - Back Home up the 75 stairs!! We walked back up the other side of Passeo de Gracia and sat and watched some removal men lifting the people's chattels into an apartment on the forth floor of a building via a lift arrangement sitting on the pavement. The goods were loaded on the platform at the ground level straight off the truck and then it was hoisted up on the lift and a chap at the top took the boxes off and sent the lift down again. Al...

Sunday 4th October - The Passeo de Gracia Walking Tour We walked down our street after finishing our lunch just for an extra bit of exercise! We got to the Passeo de Gracia which is the main wide, wide street of Barcelona and has all of the big brand labels in the shops there, like Gucci, Tiffany, Louis Vutton, Stella McCartney, Jimmie Choo. Places we don't even look in. We came to the Gaudi, La Pedrera building and there were lots of people photographing it...

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...