Barcelona

Flauta

May 30, 2019, Barcelona--We packed up and left Berlin yesterday for a great evening in Barcelona, at our favorite hotel, the Axel, and dinner at our favorite restaurant, Flauta--a superb tapas place where we had lots of seafood, including excellent sardines, and cod fritters with a romesco sauce and a bottle of Montsant that was superb.  Finished off with a nightcap of the free house shots (awful sweet stuff) on the roof of the hotel at the Skybar.  Now we head off to lunch with John's friend Tony and his wife Christine who retired to Spain from England a few years ago and then home to the States. 

We learned however yesterday the travails of travel.  We rode a hugely crowded bus to Tegal Airport, which is worse that National Airport was in the days before the new terminal.  We asked for assistance, which took more than an hour.  When it came we were raced through the lines and made the gate less than 10 minutes before loading--only to find out that the plane was delayed by a few minutes.  Got on board and found we had at least 20 minutes on the ground because of overcrowded skies.   Arrived in Barcelona and then had to wait more than 30 minutes for the bags.  Got the bus to downtown and it developed a diesel leak.  Changed buses at the side of a motorway!  Short walk to the hotel and had a great dinner as noted.  All in a days work of travel--glad it all happened at once and we weren't pressed.  Oh, well.   

And so ends this part of jmcbaddatlarge.blogspot.com.  More to come in a few weeks.