August 23-26
Barcelona seems to have everything -- it's a rich mix of amazing beaches, famed artists and architects (Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Dali), crazy nightlife, and incredible cuisine. We barely scratched the surface on the Barcelona experience but it whet our appetites to go back and explore more. We're headed there again in late September when Celia's brother, Paul and his girlfriend, Kathy visit Spain.
We had a scheduled flight on Vueling for 11pm arriving in Barcelona around 1 am but when we arrived at the Pisa airport, we discovered our flight had been delayed until 2:40 a.m. The trials and tribulations of traveling. We made it to Porta Marina, our hotel in Barcelona around 5 a.m. and went to bed to catch some Zs for a few hours.
We were a little foggy after our crazy night but rallied and discovered in the daylight that our hotel was in a sketchy neighborhood with a less than pleasant smell in the streets. However, we were a short walk to the beach so we decided to give it a go and wandered down where people were playing both beach doubles volleyball, and soccer/volleyball (only using their feet and bodies rather than arms/hands to get the ball over the net) -- what do you call this game? They were really good and fun to watch especially for a former volleyball player.
Later, we made it downtown to Catalunya Plaza and the famous, Las Ramblas, the big shopping district. Colin was on a hunt for an authentic Spain soccer shirt that included the World Cup star over the Spanish emblem. Muy importante. Colin, Kelsey and Parker all wound up getting various flavors of the Spanish team's soccer shirts. Even after that, Colin had a continuous roaming eye for soccer stores and managed to spot and point out every one we passed during our entire stay in Barcelona.
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