Nice to Barcelona

Had a late afternoon flight to Barcelona so spent a few hours on the Promenade in Nice, looking at the ocean and watching the world go by. Was lovely and relaxing.
Our apartment in Barcelona is strategically located right on La Rambla and directly over a cannabis shop. We also have to climb five flights of stairs, but it's a great apartment. We heard a lot of loud bangs when we arrived, which we thought was construction work. Turns out we have arrived on the day of Festival of Sant Joan, To celebrate everyone heads to the beach for 10pm fireworks, but the earlier bangs were people getting warmed up.
As we headed to the beach there were people letting off crackers and fireworks the whole way - including small children! The beach was crazy. We assumed the 10pm fireworks was an official event. Nope. Anyone and everyone has got their hands on fireworks of all shapes and sizes and were letting them off. We had a huge one go off right above us and cover us in ash. There was an area on the sand that was clear for people to set off their fireworks, and a number of people that wandering through the middle of it, carrying small children.
Some of the fireworks were just really really loud bangs. We all came home a little deaf. Bree was very happy she had gone to the toilet earlier, Brett and Graham were giggling like schoolboys and I was very glad to find takeaway cocktails.
We headed back to our apartment just after 11pm and there were still people heading down to the beaches with their kids. As far as the eye could see there were fireworks going off, and we could still hear them all through the night. Such a fun night.Read more