My Marriott status gave us breakfast and oh what a breakfast spread they had! They even had GF items out in the open AND each item on the buffet was marked in Spanish, French and English so at least between the 2 last languages I could hopefully get something correct to eat! After not having a full dinner the night before (we just ate some of our goodies from the grocery store) I was starving! Fruit, fresh yogurt, custom omelettes – the works! We took today to relax and I booked a “Espadrille making” class for the next morning (Friday), just before we had to pick up our car in the same area – on Las Ramblas Avenue. We re-arranged our luggage so that we would be only using one suitcase in hotels and can leave the other one plus the duffle bag in the car when the car was locked up in a safe place. Then we went for drinks at the roof top bar (27th floor) where there also is a swimming pool and then gradually moved down to the restaurant on the 14th floor for dinner (once it opened at 7:30pm). They were very aware of Celiac Disease and very cautious with my meal – I had an excellent curry chicken with jasmine rice and Andrew had shrimp done Catalan style. What we did not expect was the amuse-bouche – cherry tomato gazpacho which had gluten in it! So they served me something else which is NOT on my favourite food list – anchovies, peppers and olives! Andrew was thrilled with the 2nd option! Then for dessert, as I have just not gotten over leaving the ship yet, I had to have crème brule however it was not up to my standards – it was not very custard like – fairly runny! However perhaps that is how they make it here in Catalan Spain. We then commuted 3 floors down to our room in the sky!
