Today is our final day as we’ve got to be at the airport by 8:30 tomorrow morning (we’ll probably be there at 7:00), so we’re just having a quiet day round La Rambla today.
The breakfast at the market was the usual fair of wine, beer, whisky for the locals and a Tortilla and a steak sandwich for us. The temperature here is hot as well (31 degrees at 10am), but the humidity is what weighs you down. Like Paris, Barcelona also shuts down in August and this is starting to happen now, with some of the stands in the market closed. Out on La Rambla and Placa de la Catalunya tourists are everywhere and it seems busier than when we were here at the start of July. The queue to the topless tourist bus is over 100m long – you’d think it would be quicker to walk, or do your own thing, but that doesn’t stop people queueing in the full on sun.
We had lunch down on the wharf and will then go to Placa Reail for a Sangria this evening followed by a light dinner somewhere later on.
From Barcelona, we retrace our steps, stopping briefly in Milan (to pick up the bulk of the passengers on the plane, I suspect), before heading on to Singapore, where we have only an hour before we catch the flight to Auckland (no time for the regulation BK double whopper this time), where we arrive about midnight on Saturday night. We get back to Wellington 10:00 on Sunday morning.
Hope you’ve enjoyed the blog, thanks for reading and we’ll see you soon.
Cheers,
David and Anne.
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