In Barcelona, first day

So after leaving our luggage at our Hostel we were off to visit the Sagrada Familia where lots of renovation was taking place.  It's a magnificent monument and one that cannot be missed but in my romantic mind I had imagined something grander...maybe the renovations took away some of the magic? Here they also had a Christmas Market, very cute indeed.

Next we went off to see Gaudi's other works of art, Casa Milà and Casa Bartllò as well as Casa Amtller, highly recommended.

From here we went on to Plaça Catalunya and then to La Rambla and naturally we popped in to La Boqueiria which is the most amazing market I've ever visited.  Here one can find just about anything but the fresh juices are from heaven!  Enjoy the pics.

Next we headed on to Plaça Reial, small but very pretty. Palau Guell was also on the list but by the time we arrived it was already closed ;)

Our last stop of the day was at Columbus Monument and from there we took a little walk to the marina.  A tiring but exciting first day!!

End of our first day 😊

The day has arrived....Day 1

So the day has arrived and we are finally off on another adventure, this time to Barcelona.  We are travelling with TAP.  TAP treated us very well, the crew were very organised and friendly and we were even given a meal (free) which consisted of juice or another drink of our choice, a pastel de nata and an egg and ham sandwich.  Enjoy the pics of our flight there...

We used the Aerobus to get from El Prat airport to Barcelona centre.

Thank you TAP air Portugal!

More about the air tickets

So yesterday we decided to do the online booking with Vueling and we paid an extra 3€ something each for being able to chose where we are going to be sitting.  I found this ok as it's not overboard expensive and I had done the same on my trip to Paris and the price was the same 😉 So we have seats 21 and 22.

Now with TAP the price is considerably more, like 12€ each, so I haven't booked online yet and are still considering if we want to spend that money or just get seated wherever 😜

Current situation

So since my last post a lot has happened and a lot has changed too 😎

To start we have booked our Hostel, which will be the wait for it, it's hilarious 😃 DingDong Express.  I changed from the previous one because we were experiencing problems with paying with our credit card so we picked another!  This one is more central although a little more expensive 135€ but I think worth it.  There is also no cancelation fee and the payment is made at the Hostel.

The air tickets have been purchased too, we will be travelling to Barcelona with TAP which leaves at 6:40 and arrives at 9:35 so we'll have time to start sight-seeing straight away 😉  The return flight will be with Vueling which leaves at 7:10 and arrives in Lisbon at 8:10.

I have also been working on the sight-seeing plan and will post what we plan to do soon.