Barcelona, Spain

Today we were totally on our own. We left the ship around 9, catching a bus from our terminal to the World Trade Center at the beginning of the port area. We then walked to the metro and took a subway to Sagrada Familia, the famous Gaudi church. We have been here several times. The church has been under construction for over 100 years and it is always interesting to see the progress. The first time we were here there was only concrete floors and scaffolding around the massive pillars. Now the floor is marble and the pillars beautifully decorated.

We had bought our tickets on line and only had to wait 15 minutes to go in. We had downloaded the audio tour and walked around and then sat while someone played the organ. It was very crowded.

After, we walked back towards the ship. We stopped on La Rambla for lunch. We had 2 tapas – tomatoes on bread with olive oil and roasted potatoes with olive oil and mayonnaise topping. Both were delicious. Then we had vegetable paella, I was nervous about ordering seafood in a small sidewalk cafe. It too was tasty and topped it all off with sangria.

We finished our walk and returned to the ship. With all the walking my Fitbit says I had almost 16,000 steps today.