MSC Sinfonia – Day 3 – Barcelona

21 Nov 2007

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Travel

 Location Map

Down the gangplank and into the city right around 0800, we skipped the tour groups in favor independence. (http://www.bcn.es/english/ihome.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona ). At first there were not many people up and around in the city. The ship docks are actually close to the city. We were able to walk two blocks to La Ramblas. Buying a day pass on the double-decker tour bus allowed us to cruise both loops. Because the bus drivers were going to be doing an intermittent strike between 1100-1600, we just stayed on the bus.

Walking :

Barcelona Sights Barcelona Sights

Before getting passes to the city tour bus. Not all that expensive for 4+ hours of riding around first the blue, then the red loop starting and stopping more or less at Plaç de Catalunya.

Barcelona is home to Gaudi –
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 Gaudi Detail

The city also claims Christopher Columbus
”Christopher

And just a lot of interesting buildings. It is a city of architectural interest: trims on buildings, balconies with iron railings and interesting doors set back almost hidden by the surrounding walls.
”The”The”Balconies”The”Roof

And cathedrals – a prominent part of the city.

”Old”Cathedral””

Proving that cells phones are needed, the teen managed to locate us on one of the main streets. I fed her lunch; after all, I am a mom. It was nice having her to order lunch – those years of Spanish have paid off, even here in Catalan. She is doing fine on her assignment, only wishing that three of the women at the Hostel would figure out quiet hours. She is here till Friday, then heads back to Germany by plane.

Knitting

Rivendell is not bus knitting. Peapods can be bus knitting. (This is my reward for finishing up that sock which has been UFOd for months and starting the second).

New Peapod

Audio Books

Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer is a series of short stories. Quite British in most of their aspects, I still found most quite amusing.

-Holly

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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