Barcelona, CATALUNYA, Spain
Pension Palacia Hostal
Day 46, 47
We´ve arrived in Barcelona! What a gorgeous seaside city, from what we see so far!
I´m so glad Greg booked a sleeper for the train trip to Barcelona! When he booked it on Saturday, i was stuffed up with the flu and spent 3 hours in bed trying to recover and today feel so much better.
It bumped, screeched, rattled, knocked, swayed and rocked while we tried to sleep but after a 12 hour journey, here we are in our ´new home´a hostal that was recommended to us by a guy at the train station when we arrived! It´s €40 for the night, has internet access, a kitchen, is central and close to the Ramblas and beach! The double bed is tiny tho..but Greg and i are known to fit in a single! haha!
We´ve survived our first Eurail journey!!! We have 2 months to use it and 15, 24 hour periods to use it. This is the first of two Eurail tickets we have. This one we´ll use for southern Europe with a month break in the UK. Then we have another two month pass that we´ll use for northen Europe.
It wasn´t so bad though. We were in first class with a sleeper. I pity those going on a long trip like that sitting up a seat. We paid an extra €49 each to be upgraded in our Eurail ticket but it was worth it. At least we don´t feel like something the cat has dragged in now!
So here we are....and we´re going to go search the town now!
Columbus' monument
Will let you know what Barcelona is like next time...love to all xx
PS Margie and Peta - we´re ¨hoping¨ to get to Andorra! Silvia, we´ll be going to Italy soon! Jaak, we´ll be in Belgium in July!
