Friday May 8 2015

First full day in Barcelona.  Went to the Olympic village with Achi and Baerbel.  We entered on the city side where there was an auto show going on.  We walked up the hill to the Olympic stadium.  Achi and Baerbel decided to go up on the cable cars and we split from them to go to the beach.

Grabbed a taxi to Port Vell.  Took a quick walk over the Rambla De Mar to the mall on the water.  Walking back over the bridge, there was an alarm!  They had to open the bridge to let some sail boats through:



Then we saw an open cruise boat "La Golandrina" so we hopped on for a 1.5 hour tour of the oceanfront:

I got sunburned.

After that I wanted to have lunch at a waterfront restaurant.  We tole the taxi driver to take us to La Barcelona beach and are there some good restaurants there.  She dropped us off and recommended a nice place.  It was a big italiam restaurant with two floors and a large outside patio. But it was full.

We ended up at another outside place.  The waiter was very fine:

After that we were exhausted and took a taxi back to the Metro, then back to the hotel.