Barcelona, one of the best cities in the world -David and friends

Tuesday, 26 Apr 2011

Dear Saras,
We have returned home last week, and still are living on our memories of Barcelona.
Our arrival was painless, and the fact that you met us on our arrival and introduced us to the appartment and the neighborough was most welcome.
The appartment was spacious, clean, big enough for 6 adults, and the location just off the Universitat and Plaza Catalunya was perfect. We took the Hop on/off bus the first morning to get to know the highlites, then walked everywhere, took the very convenient Metro if we were getting a bit tired.
Barcelona is a fantastic city, the architecture, and not just Gaudi, the sensible layout, the infrastructure, the urbanity and civility of the place, the public art,
the food, the museums, we lined up for the Picasso museum, free every first Sunday of the month, well worth the line up! The atmosphere, tapas and cava across the street at El Xampanyet were fantastic too! We took the train for couple of day trips to Figueres, Girona and Montserrat, also very convenient, the train stations are so close, underground, walking distance as well, how civilized! Even the weather was perfect, 25C, first week of April, we still are only breaking the teens at home in Toronto! We are looking forward to going to Barcelona again, next time even longer than the week, there is so much to do, see and just enjoy life.
Thank you again for introducing us to your adopted city, one of the best cities in the world,
Regards,

David and Deborah, Tiziano and Jan, Michael and MaryEllen, Canada