Barcelona

Day 7 Barcelona Sunny 24C

As we have been to Barcelona before, but never been inside the Sagrada Familia due to huge queues, we booked tickets online before we left home.

Up early enough to see us entering Barcelona harbour on a clear and sunny morning. Watch the huge (4,000 passenger) MSC Splendida squeeze past us, Celebrity Equinox and Nautica to its berth. Then breakfast and off on the shuttle bus to Barcelona town. With maps at the ready we took the Metro at the bottom of Las Ramblas which is the main tourist 'drag'.

Metro Station on Las Ramblas

Easy to buy tickets (2 Euros a trip) and with one change we were at Gaudi's amazing church well before our booked slot. Time to have a good look around outside before going inside.

The outside is famously still work in progress but the inside is very much complete and very impressive: pleased we made the effort to see it.

Then back on the Metro to see the Boqueria (food) Market with its lovely smells and extravagant displays.

Fight our way back down Las Ramblas to the pick up the shuttle back to the ship in time, just, for a pre lunch swim in the now warm pool. Afternoon lazing by the pool which is nice and empty as everyone else is still doing Barcelona!

Decide to skip the violinist again in the theatre and just stroll around the ship before back to the cabin for blogging and surfing the net. We splashed out on 250 minutes plus another 'free' 30 minutes. However the last 3 logins have not been recorded so we still have 238 minutes left: we are sure they will however catch up with us!