Despite the fog horn on the ship sounding for an hour at 3 in the morning, we arrived in a sunny and warm Barcelona. Barcelona is not a pretty port being mainly commercial and industrial , and there were another four large cruise ships in as well as Ventura: a total of 16,598 passengers!
View from our cabin
A good reason to be on
the first shuttle coach from the port to Barcelona. This is our
fourth visit to Barcelona so we decided to have a quick look up La
Rambla, the main street of Barcelona before going up to see the
Olympic Stadium by funicular and then cable car.
La Ramabla
So we eventually found
the base station of the funicular only to see it replaced by a bus
service; so plan B!
Boat Show
We decided to go and
look at the beach area which we have never seen. It was a pretty long
walk around the harbour area, made a little longer due to the
Barcelona International Boat Show! The beach is long and sandy and
really not that far from the city centre.
Beach
Back to the pick up
point for the shuttle and then back for lunch and our normal
afternoon of just lazing with a bit of swimming.
Impressive Water front
Another Headliners show
tonight which we will go to despite having seen it last year on
Arcadia! Then off tomorrow to our last visit in Palma de Mallorca,
and then a day at sea before we arrive in our final port of Malaga
from where we fly home on Wednesday.
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