Barcelona

BARCELONA We are staying at this apartment:[| http://www.apartmentsramblas.com/en/barcelona/1468/] Forget Ole! after 14 and a half hours travelling (including a 75 minute "break" at Milan where we weren't allowed to get out of our seats let alone off the plane! - actually we disobeyed the seats command!) we finally set foot on Spanish soil at Barcelona airport. Despite several begging, pleading emails to the apartment "owners/whatever" we were firmly told that the keys would be available at 14:30 hrs and no earlier. This then left us with only 4 and 1/2 hours to fill in. Sounds a breeze but with 2 large bags and 2 cabins bags plus very little sleep we just wanted a bed! We managed to fill in most of the time sitting and reading in a little outdoor cafe/wine bar near the "pick up the keys" office, duely picked up the keys (yes, we were there dead on 2:30pm) caught a taxi to the apartment to discover that we couldn't open the door try as we might. A garbled phone call later (remember Manual from Faulty Towers?) and finally a girl arrived, shoved her key in, grunted a bit, oushed hard and voila! the door opened! Needless to say we made her stay until we had successfully opened it several times with OUR key.
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So now we're in - Gails having a snooze and sooner or later we have to find a food shop to get some provisions (beer and wine at the very least!) - OK, update on that ... found beer and wine and walked the very busy narrow streets of our neighbourhood. Very old area and teeming with life!

Singapore was great although Gail's long awaited high tea at Raffles didn't come off as it was all booked out for a wedding party! Instead we had an afternoon supper in another part of the hotel. Not quite the same (but still pricey). Gail enjoyed it anyway as it was quite tasty and, after all, it was still RAFFLES! DAY TWO NOTES
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 * Click here to see some of the pics we took whilst in Barcelona.**

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