Day 101, 13 October 2012, Badalona - Barcelona - PARIS!!! Almost 3 weeks have passed since we arrived in Spain and it would be fair to say we could both live here easily. What's not to like about stunning architecture, inexpensive food and bottles of wine for less than €2. And of all the places we have visited, Barcelona has been incredibly accessible. Today we farewelled it sadly with a final nip into town on the Metro to hunt down some portable camping typ...

Day 100(!), 12 October 2012, Barcelona Gaudi Walking Tour with Runner Bean Tours - Gaudi is Barcelona's favourite son (not to say he wasn't controversial in his time, mind you). Until we reached Barcelona, we would have been hard pressed to say if Gaudi was an artist or an architect... that is we knew nothing at all. The tour soon fixed that. First stop was Placa Reial where we saw Gaudi's one and only commission for the city council of the time - the exotic l...

Day 99, 11 October 2012, Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda... Didn't - Nothing like a great walking tour to tire us out... and the weight of plans yet to be made hung over our heads, so today we lounged around the apartment (pictured is the view to the beach), listened to the rhythm of the falling rain.... and worked like crazy to plan for about 2 weeks from now when we had tentatively scheduled a trip from France to Ireland prior to reaching London in early November. What...

Day 98, 10 October 2012. Barcelona Old City/Gothic Quarter free walking tour with Gorka at Runner Bean Tours. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Quarter,_Barcelona). It was the best of days in many different ways. The Apple Store managed to magic up a replacement iPad for us in a mere 24 hours so we spent a couple of hours getting Dwermy up to speed before joining a great free walking tour of the old city (www.runnerbeantours.com). It never ceases to amaze...

Day 97, 9 October 2012, Strolling Barcelona and Menu del Dia - It was hard to carry on, especially with the thought that Dwermy the iPad might not arrive until after we leave Barcelona on Saturday (that's Dos Wormy or Wormy the 2nd in Spanish). But we persevered and our new friend took us on a tour of some of the central sights - La Boqueria, a fabulous fruit, seafood, meat market built on the remains of a convent (juice stall pictured). We continued down Las R...