After a night of very little, if any, sleep, we arrived in Barcelona at 9:00 a.m. It took an hour for our luggage to arrive at the claim, but after we retrieved it we hailed a taxi and were at the hotel within 30 minutes (25 Euros). Of course the room wasn’t ready, so we changed into something more comfortable, left our luggage at the hotel and headed for La Ramblas - one of the more well-known pedestrian streets in Europe. We enjoyed lunch at a local outdoor café. We tried some local cuisine - ham and cheese sandwich with tomato paste spread and a tortilla espanola, a Spanish omelet (egg and potato quiche). We also enjoyed a cup of coffee (always good in Europe) and Coke Lite (yuck).
After lunch we strolled up and down La Ramblas for a few hours, we visited La Boqueria (the local market) and the Picasso Museum and ate dinner at what turned out to be our favorite café in Barcelona - Taverna Basca Irati. This place was recommended by Rick Steve’s, who has never let us down. They serve tapas called pintxos (small open-faced sandwiches like sushi on bread) from a standup bar for 2 Eruos each. You are charged by the number of toothpicks left on your plate at the end of the meal. Yummy!
We turned in sometime around 7:30 p.m. after being up for over 30 hours. Sleep was heavenly. We stayed in bed for 12 hours.
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