FUN-travel: Chiva to Barcelona, Spain
September 14, 2012 by Susan Clarke
Trip Day 51 – Thursday, August 30 – Chiva to Barcelona, Spain
Placa de Catalunya
What I LIKE
Casa de lesPunxes
- our neighbor called to see if we were back yet & to tell us everything was fine & they were leaving to go to Hawaii
- 9:00 – ready to go to hit the road for Barcelona
- 11:00 – starts raining
- 1:30 – arrive airport Hertz
- didn’t have any accidents in Spain
- TI @ airport finds us a **** room in Eixample for only $137 Euro
- 3:00 – taxi to downtown $30 Euros
- Gallery Hotel is in great location – big comfy room
- 7:15 – nice big walk to ECI – El Corte Engles for provisions
- you can get an additional 18% vat tax back on items you don’t consume
- 8:45 – dinner Tenorio – tomato, mozzarella, tuna belly salad & broad beans with ham & shrimp – mushrooms & duck with fried egg on top & tomato bread with parmesan slices – Pagode los Capellanes, Ribera wine is young & fruity
- 10:15 – rain stops – only short walk back to hotel
Placa de Catalunya
What I DIDN”T LIKE
- cell phone rang @ 6:20 am
- now worried something might be wrong back home
- can’t get coffee until 7:00
- don’t have a room reservation
- ECI gives non-residents 10% off everything and no one told us until now
- walk out and it’s pouring rain – no umbrella
FF (FUN-fact) – Barcelona is Spain’s second largest city and their motto is, “You’re not in Spain, You’re in Catalunya!”