Ian: We returned from our four days in Barcelona last tuesday ! We are sure it was only the first of many visits ! Because it was SO BEAUTIFUL !!

Michael: Can only second what Ian has said. We were very impressed with Barcelona, the people, the food, the culture, the history, the architecture, the museums - all great.

Anyway, to begin at the beginning, we left Glasgow on Saturday morning, flying Globespan directly to Barcelona El Prat, a very modern, large and airy airport - a legacy of the 1992 Olympic games, no doubt. Globespan being a cheap airline, not everything went well. The plane deposited us in Terminal A, but our luggage ended up in Terminal B. After waiting for about an hour at the belts for our backpack, we heard an announcement over the tannoy (a lovely British word for what we Australians call a PA system)

This is a photo of Barcelona's França Station. It's a pretty modern station, by European standards, built in the 1920s.

from our hotel room

those georgeous little streets and alleyways!

Plaça de Sant Jaume

in Barceloneta - the town nearest to the sea.

on the night of the lunar eclipse (M: No, that's actually a palm frond, NOT the lunar eclipse!)

Michael: This is us at Montjuïc, which we got to via a cable car from Barceloneta. It was actually quite a frustrating ride, but more on that later.

MORE TO COME !