The Cure For Everything Is Salt …
… tears, sweat, and the sea. (Dinesen)
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Travelogue: Barcelona to Sea, Sunday, 28 August 2011
28 August 2011
We leave within the hour for the port and our Mediterranean cruise.
Yesterday was a delayed recovery day. We slept until 10:00 a.m., ate a light breakfast (mostly liquid, mostly caffeine), and lounged at the hotel until lunch at La Gardunya, a wonderful restaurant tucked into a corner of the Mercat de la Boqueria. In the afternoon we walked around the neighborhoods directly adjacent to La Ribera and went to the Picasso Museum. On the way, we found the first of several suns for our wall in a mask shop on Princesa Street. Peter chose a limited edition Gaudi-inspired sun as his birthday gift, and the shopkeeper volunteers to package it for travel and hold it until we return on the 8th.
We didn’t manage to stay up late enough to enjoy a proper dinner any of the last three nights (restaurants here don’t open until 9:00 or 9:30 p.m.), but tapas and a bottle of red wine each night were perfect meals for us.
