• Final day in Barcelona

    November 1, 2025 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    We traveled by train to Barcelona and made our way to the hotel. I might add we looked at Google maps and saw it was only a 15 minute walk to the hotel so why not walk! We should have known. Despite Google maps telling us pretty much everything is *mostly flat" there's very little in Spain that is not a hill of some sort. So up hill all the way to our hotel, dragging 15 kg suitcases, eager to get off to the big Barcelona market. Sadly we discovered when looking for the best way to travel there, that it was closed due to all saints day. So what else could we do. We moved on to a bar in a lovely square - where they had a menu of gins - for some G&Ts. The next day November 2nd, we boarded the plane for the journey home.Read more