Cruise day two Barcelona, Spain
Well actually this was days 3 and 4 as I had a bit too much
fun on the night before my birthday and we ended up staying in for day two of
the cruise. Not that it was much of a deal anyway as I was not to excited about
Monte Carlo, Monaco. Sure it would have been fun to get off the boat and
explore some of a country we had never gone to but the kids were pretty tired
after walking for 4 hours straight the day before and we had heard that Monte
Carlo was good for two things shopping and casinos. The first problem was that
the shopping they were talking about was for high fashion items and I am cheap person
looking for a great deal. The second problem is that I do not gamble, not out
of principle or anything like that but I am bad at it and I just end up giving
my money to the person- again I am too cheap to do that more than once.
Did I mention the FOOD! I guess that was another reason we
stayed on board, it was hard to get off the ship when all the meals were served
all you can eat buffet style, granted some stations prepared your food to
order. The quality and selection were amazing! I must have gained 20 lbs. on
the boat in the 10 days I was there. Also room service was complementary so if
you did not get enough at the trough of breakfast lunch dinner- which melded
into one continuous meal with different selections- you could order room
service 24 hours a day at no extra cost. The only two things that were extra on
the cruise were alcohol and soda. And they were so expensive that we tended to avoid
them, tended I did not say I avoided them totally because happy hour was buy
one get one, hence my trouble the night before.
Christopher Columbus Statue
So the next time we got off the boat was on 30 July at the port
of Barcelona, Spain. I have to say I really liked Barcelona and had a great
time exploring the first day. We were in port for 2 days in Barcelona. We started our wandering at the Christopher
Columbus Statue (above) which then lead to Las Rambla which was a nice tree
lined street with many off shoots in the heart of Barcelona.
I guess I had a better time on the first day because we just
wandered around town not trying to see anything in particular. We ended up
finding a lot of neat little churches and plazas that were nice and quaint and
a bit off the normal tourist routes. One of the first little churches that we
happened upon was St. Maria Del Pi. We found it in a nameless plaza that we had
wandered into aimlessly.
In fact we found our
favorite building of the whole trip by wandering around aimlessly in Barcelona.
The
Eyeball Building?
Actually the Palau de Musica was a good second contender for
our favorite building on the trip as well. We- ok I – wanted to go in to get a
full tour of the Music Palace but the tickets were $20 a person and there was
no way I was going to cough up $80 to hear my kids bitch about being dragged through
another museum/cathedral - and this was only day 2 for God’s sake!
I did convince the kids to go into the Cathedral de
Barcelona, which was nice. It gave us some time out of the sun and they got to
see a lot of wonderful architecture.
The cool thing about the Cathedral de
Barcelona was that it had a pound and pen for these swans! It was neat sitting in the plaza of the church watching the swans- granted they got pretty mean to one of their own - those priests need to raise them better.
Well we wandered around for the better part of 5 hours
before we found ourselves back at the feeding trough – err I mean back on the
boat to eat!
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