Day 24

Walked to the beach for breakfast.  Sat for a couple of hours just enjoying the sun, the breeze, the parau vendors pushing their goods over and over and over.

Worked our way over to the Gothic Quarter.  Discovered this ancient cathedral, Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi.

It's  amazing to see cars and delivery vehicles manage some of these streets.  There are a tremendous amount of motorcycles, substantially more than any other European city probably due to their salubrious climate.

Beautiful flowers everywhere, in gardens, flower boxes, springing from rocks...

 Another cathedral in the gothic quarter, Catedral de Barcelona.

There are two markets in the Gothic Quarters.  Mercado de La Bouqueria is right off Las Ramblas and we ate lunch there, a mixed seafood platter with Razorback clams, langoustine, scampi, and mussels. Swamped with tourists, almost uncomfortable. A much more enjoyable experience was wandering through the more upscale, modern Mercat de Santa Caterina.

 With the time remaining before we had to pick up our bags from the Hostel, we explored Parc de la Ciutedella again, discovering more paths, a small lake where some people were boating, this enormous fountain and busload after busload of children, even a small group of little child in a row napping under their blankets.

 Unfortunately the fountain wasn't running, also the case of many here in Paris.  Still very impressive. Then off to the airport with a taxi driver who passed everything on the road.  The speedometer hit at leasst 120kph.  Ross said it felt like 80mph and he should know.

Uneventful flight, getting back around 8:30p.  Took what we thought would be a quicker RER train to Paris with only two stops before our station, wellllll. Picked very tasty Falafel on the way home, stuffed ourselves and I crashed.