Tuesday 30th October 2018
Capital of Catalonia and Spain’s second largest city. Everywhere you will see the ornately wrought works of Antonio Gaudi, a local architect, culminating in the surrealistic spires of the yet to be finished Sagrada Familia. Take a stroll down Las Ramblas, sample local wines and authentic tapas, or visit the home of Barcelona FC.
Just coming into port as we woke this morning, weather much better again. Light airs, scattered clouds and mild.
Berthed about as far from town as possible, four other ships beat us in.
So breakfast morning trivia and onto the shuttle bus to town. Usual drop off near the world trade centre. Lots of greened ringed parakeets in the trees, they seem to have spread everywhere now.
Then we bought ourselves tickets for the harbour boat tour and hung around till time to board. Weather now nice and sunny and temperature in the 20’s.
Boat took us around the harbour up by three of the cruise liners, turned a bit short of the end, and our ship, sadly. Then cruised out into the sea to loop round and then into the inner harbour to view the super yachts.
All in all a nice little ride round.
Then back on the shuttle to return to the ship for a coffee.
Time to sit in the sun, might not get too much more, so made the most of it.
Looks like we have missed the worst of the weather, high wind, heavy rain and tornado's in Italy.
Dinner in the buffet tonight.
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