Today in Barcelona

After a lovely chat with Fred & Natalie from Raleigh, NC over croissants and coffee at Casa de Billy, we head out to find a solution to our previously mentioned tent problem. After four outdoor equipment shops, we ducked into a hobby store, full of trains and fake grass. They had metal tubing and a saint working there who used a Vermeer caliper to measure our tent pole, find an appropriate tube AND cut it down for us. SAINT! His picture is among the slideshow. He even let Chris put some elbow grease into it. That problem somewhat solved, we sought a Menu del Dia. I enjoyed some delicious gazpacho and Chris had a significant quantity of roasted asparagus. That was just the first course. We had ham-stuffed pork loin as a second course and crema Catalan and chocolate cake. With the beers, it was 21 euro- all included. A good end to a successful morning.

In the afternoon, we trekked up to the train station and hoped to secure transport to Bern for tomorrow. Haha- how silly we are to think any train through France might be anything but a huge hassle. "Not possible," is the phrase train ticket sellers tend to use... but we figured it out and we'll be on our way to Bern tomorrow.

We then hopped into the metro system and via vernicular, went up to the Castel. The best thing about that was the random stray cats and the view. (Wouldn't recommend it- plenty of views elsewhere.)We made our way back down the mount and visited Mies van de Rohe's Pavilion. We sat in the chairs, regardless of signage in multiple languages not to. With sore feets, we made our way back to the casa and are planning out what comes next!