At 7:45am I received a call from a
strange phone number, it was a Spanish speaking man talking a mile a
minute……….I understood ‘gringo, mujeres,
y aqui’. This was just enough to
let me know that it was the taxi driver and somehow Marta and Nancy had arrived a half hour early and were
already waiting for me in our meeting spot in the square. I grabbed some clothes and ran to the square
to find them both there smiling and waving!
Even after traveling all night and
most of the day before……..Seattle is a long way from here, they both wanted to
grab a coffee and keep going. Go we got
there bags to the apartment, no easy task, big bags, small steps and lots of
twists and turns but we did it! Next it
was off to the coffee shop to get a coffee and a plan for the day. It didn’t take much discussion to decide the
best thing to do was not decide, we would simply catch a ride on the ‘hop on,
hop off buss of Barcelona’. This way
Nance and Marta could get an easy overview what Barcelona has to offer and
where they want to focus their time.
The bus proved perfect as we rode
around to many parts of Barcelona that I had not seen before and gave us all a
good feeling for our favorites. Although
my friends were proving themselves troopers they were showing the signs of jet
lag so we ‘hopped off’ the bus at the beach and hit my favorite beach bar (the
only one I’ve been too before!) for lunch.
This is where Nancy and Marta meet the famous ‘lemonade beers’ and
quickly announced they loved them! The
operative word here is ‘refreshing’ and perfect for a hot afternoon.
We came back to the
apartment. While Marta napped Nance and
I schemed how we can get ourselves to Paris for a few days at the end of the
week.
The day would not be complete
without ‘champagne sangria and a huge dish of paella’. While we were being entertained by the
‘hottest’ group of athletic men street performers we were treated to a complete
Spanish scene as the ‘policia’ came charging in and ran them off. Ahhhhh, nothing like a little Spanish
action! Welcome to Barcelona!!!
Needless to say it was a busy and complete day
full of lots of laughs and great friendship and lots of things Spanish!
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