Plaça de Catalunya

As usual very comfortable train trip, this time with Iryo, high speed at almost 300 km/h. It would take almost 6 hours to drive and 2.5 hours by train. Flat mountainside plains predominantly. Arrived into Barcelona Sants station, subway to Placa de Catalunya. Metro crowded and we left the platform and could not find our way out! Other people seemed to also be looking for the exit. We retraced our steps and found that we needed to exit directly from the arrival platform and we had entered a maze which was connecting with two other lines. It was hot in there! Had a look around the plaza - huge and a lot of people! Very busy and large Foot Locker J! Makes Toronto look relatively small. Doug found the bus which would take us directly to our place near near Camp Nou the stadium where the 2nd to last soccer game of the year was to take place tonight starting at 9 pm. Check in was easy, this is the first stay we've had were there is a 24 hour desk. Reception advised that they will be demolishing Camp Nou to build a new stadium after this season and games will temporarily be at the Olympic venue built when Barcelona was the host in 1992. We looked at the availability of tickets and the €300 per ticket ($450 CDN) was too high for us. Nice tourist oriented apartment in a pleasant neighbourhood. Found a great Indian restaurant for dinner called Hungry Eyes, prices good but we found extras added up (€50).Read more