Our B&B in Barcelona – 10/17/2014
The Catholic Answers group had a farewell party on 10/16/2014 from 8 to 9 pm before we pulled into Rome and departed the cruise ship the next morning. It was fun to say a fond farewell to about 100 people with whom we had dined, attended lectures and walked with on many shore excursions.
We left the ship at 6:45 Am, took a shuttle bus to edge of Rome’s cruise port -Civitavecchia. From there, we walked to the train station, bought train tickets to airport. We took a train to major train hub – Trastevere. From there we connected to a train to Fiumicino Airport. When we got to airport terminal 3, we had a little trouble finding where to check our bags for our Vueling Airlines flight to Barcelona. We caught our 2 pm flight, arrived in Barcelona at 4:30, took a cab to our B&B.
We are staying at El Faro BnB, Carrer de la Vinya 3, 08041 Barcelona España.
For the price, this is a great place! There are 3 rooms sharing common areas. Everything is relatively small but comfortable. We have only met the people in the other rooms as they were leaving to go out. We have had the place to ourselves when we have been there.
We got advice on a good spanish restaurant for our first night’s dinner. We walked following the general directions we got looking for a red lobster sign. When we finally found it, it was very crowded even though we were early at 9 pm for dinner. We decided to find something else. We ended up at an Asian Restaurant. They spoke no english and had no english on their menu. We managed to order a typical chinese dinner. The Rice was good! The rest was passible.
We got a good night’s sleep. We languished in the morning. We didn’t head out until late morning, almost noon. We needed a break I guess and we both knew it.
Our B&B Barcelona
Our “home” in Barcelona was close to our first place to visit – Gaudi’s Holy Family Church: