After a 12 hour flight, we finally made it to Barcelona, The flight was direct and I loved not having a layover. It was also was maybe the easiest process going through passport control and getting our luggage. I think by the time we landed to the time we were in a taxi, it was just under an hour. Way better than the 3 plus hours it took to get through Paris last year.

The city is very lively and walkable. I think arriving on a Sunday night was perfect as we didn’t have much traffic to the hotel. We walked 14 miles on Monday in fairly warm/humid weather. I was able to see sunrise from the hotel balcony, to the Mediterranean Sea and the charming neighborhoods.

I think my favorite meal so far was a cute pizza place we found on Sunday night. We were lucky that they had availability right when we walked up and I could watch the guy make pizzas in the small pizza oven. Each pizza only cooked a for a couple of minutes max. The waitress was funny and really didn’t want to let us pay to leave. There were people waiting outside for tables to open up but the waitress told us she didn’t want to work more so we couldn’t pay. I kind of thought she was joking but I think it took us 20 minutes to actually get to pay. She was really testing our jet lag at that point.

Can’t wait for my Casa Battló tour tomorrow.