Monday July 25

This morning we went to the train station to catch our train to Figueres and transfer to Barcelona. Well we went to our platform and no train, we were getting concerned because we only had 16 min to transfer trains in Figueres, we chatted it up and shared worries with some other canadians who were in the same situation. So anyways the train was like 18 min late so we all thought we missed our connection but they held the other train so we made it here. We didnt make one mistake on the metro or finding our hotel which is really good considering we have walked around for like 2 hours in much smaller places lost so we are pretty proud of ourselves! Well the rain isnt here yet and it is HOT and humid but thats ok I dont want anymore rain. After we checked in to our hotel ( so nice, a splurg hotel not by choice but by lack of options)we cooled down- oh side note for Turbo at our hotel and many others in Barcelona they advertised pillow menus, what is that we wondered? well exactly as it sounds a menu with different pillow types that you can order for free to your room, I know you always hate hotel pillows Turbo, you should come to Spain. Anyways we strolled down the busseling Passage de Gracias mostly in search for food as we had only ate croissants today, well here people do not start supper until at least 10pm so our choices were tapas bars which are very intimating almost as much as french cheese shops. But we picked one and fumbled through the menu( with English thank goodness) we had sangria, fried peppers, potaoes brava, fried artichokes and spinach with chickpeas- all so good!!! This alleviated our tapas fear some what now we need to master the bar only tapas bars where you crowd around a bar pick plates and save the tooth picks and at the end thats how much you pay by # of tooth picks, mabey tomorrow we will conquer that one. WE are now being lame and relaxing in our room, we will have a bussy day tomorrow going to Las Ramblas which is a very busy pedestrian street km's long that is said to be a highlight of the city but also pickpocketers parridise so wish us luck:) We will be careful!!!!