Normandy Adventures: Hola Barcelona!

Norm:

Today is the day that we leave France and move onto the next country: Spain and specifically Barcelona!

We checked out of our hotel in Nice and took the bus to the airport. We arrived fairly early at the airport and had lunch. This was the first time I flew EasyJet, and didn't realize that this was the kind of flight without assigned seats. As a result, when we got to the airport, we took our sweet time, had lunch, spent time walking around the airport and by the time I realized we had to line up to get good spots, there was already a large queue to get onto the flight. Lucky for us, the gate changed at the last minute, and rather than being at the end of the queue, I ran towards the new gate and we were one of the first to get onto the flight and secure some prime real estate on the flight.

Upon arriving in Barcelona, I realized how little I remembered from my first year university Spanish class. Nevertheless, we found our way from the airport to the train station to the hotel with little difficulty. This hotel was definitely the best out of all the cities that we visited and was in a great location as well. As it was starting to get late, we decided to get dinner just at a restaurant nearby in the Historic District where there are numerous shops and restaurants. Though originally, we intended on going to a nearby Tapas restaurant, we opted at the last minute to go to a Mexican restaurant that had more people in it.

This proved to be a mistake - the food was very mediocre and I daresay that I would have preferred eating at Taco Bell. However, drinks were very reasonably priced and I had 2 Long Island Iced Teas priced at 5 Euros for each. Not too bad, but we'll never go there again for food. Lesson learnt! We also learned that food and most other things are much cheaper in Spain than France :):)