Barcelona, Spain – Saturday, November 28

We arrived back to port about 6 AM. No rush for us to get off so we had a leisure breakfast and then departed the ship about 8:45. Took a taxi to our next hotel – Hotel Regencia Colon – located right across the street from the Barcelona cathedral. Could not get into our room until after lunch. Hotel staff gave us directions how to catch the #19 bus to La Sagrada Familia – the Gaudi Cathedral that is still under construction – supposedly two more decades of construction. We arrived just fine and ned chose not to tour the LSF. He sat in a nice park across from this and people watched and also there was a dog park so he watched it, too. I rented a headset and started on my tour. it took about 90 minutes. There were lots of tour groups there but when I exited the LSF, the line was around the corner and down the block just to get in. It is am amazing site.

Found our way back to bus #19 and took it back to our hotel. There was some kind of Christmas festival that had started this day so there were shops set up (like Canton) all along the street between us and the cathedral. So we browsed along those and then had a very nice lunch at the Hotel Colon. Had some down time in the hotel room and then went out searching for some place to have a light dinner about dusk time again tons of people at the Christmas festival. We settled on a place close to the cathedral to have churros and cocoa for dinner and it was excellent.