Wednesday May 15, 2019 Total relaxation day with not a whole lot to do. We sleep in and then go for a stroll along the Robine Canal. There are boats docked alongside. Many people sail boats along the canals of France. They have to go through a series of locks and then visit small towns […]
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Year: 2019
Bienvenue a France
Tuesday May 14, 2019 Ooh la la, we are going to France today. Spain has been nice but we are ready for the change. As I said, one reason is that the Spanish food was pretty similar everywhere. Lots of fried and paella with a few twists here and there. We will see what France […]
Last Day in Spain
Monday May 13, 2019 Carol makes us a nice homemade breakfast. Eggs, potatoes with onions, and toast makes for a fine meal. I had to make sure that Carol remembered how to cook after being spoiled for the last 5 weeks. After breakfast, we […]
My Girona
Sunday May 12, 2019 We have a leisurely breakfast and morning before we walk to the bus station for our 1030 bus. We are hoping the advertised hour trip lets us catch the 1143 train from Figueres to Girona. The same hour trip here was an hour and fifteen so we do not hold up […]
Dali and Gala’s House
Saturday May 11, 2019 The weather has changed and we wake up to mostly cloudy skies. We have a little over a mile walk to the Casa de Dali. Tickets were bought months ahead as they only let about thirty people in a half hour. Our entry time is 1030 but our on line ticket […]
Hello Dali
Friday May 10, 2019 Today, we have a two part journey. We take a train to our first stop, which is the town of Figueres. From the train station, we have about a mile walk to the Dali Theatre Museum. We have a timed entrance for 1200 and left ourselves extra time because we do […]
Beach Day
Thursday May 9, 2019 We sleep in a bit today as we do not have any timed entries, trains to catch, or big sights to see. In fact, we really do not have anything planned other than checking out the Barcelona beach. We have another nice breakfast and get ready to go out. I read […]
Trip to Montserrat
Wednesday May 8, 2019 We have breakfast right at 0800. Yesterday, we bought tickets for the train and rack railway that goes to Montserrat, a mountaintop monastery about an hour from Barcelona. The train we plan on leaves at 0936 and we have a 1.2 mile walk to Placa Espanya where it leaves from. Somehow, […]
La Sagrada Familia
Tuesday May 7, 2019 We have a timed entry into the Sagrada Familia today at 1030. It is crazy that all these places have to be booked months ahead or you most likely will not get in. That has been the norm for major sights such as this, the Alhambra, the Alcazar, etc. We like […]
Meeting Mr. Gaudi
Monday May 6, 2019 Today is a kind of Antonio Gaudi day. We have a reserved time for the monumental area of Parc Guell, designed by Gaudi and the plan to walk and see the exteriors of a few of his buildings around town. We take a metro to the Alfons X stop, where our […]