Well, the first “segment” of the cruise is over! For some people that means they are getting off the ship and for others they are excited to be getting on… For us that meant no In Room dining for breakfast – we had to patronize the Dining Room and then we had to leave the ship for the day so they could clean it. We were not allowed back aboard until 3pm, for a 5pm sailing time. Ted, Pat, Andrew and I had planned to take the Hop on Hop off bus service on both loops today and that is what we did! We took a taxi to the square where they departed from and hopped on! It was supposed to be a 90 minute to 2 hour ride on the Red Line which was the first one we saw… it ended up being 2 1/2 hours so that precluded us from going on the Blue Line in case the same thing happened as that would make us late for the 4:30pm all aboard. So instead we ate lunch at a lovely café called Café Vienna on the Las Ramblas street which is the main tourist drag in Barcelona. Also where pick pockets live – luckily none of us were their prey! After lunch we walked down Las Ramblas a ways, check out the hotel where Pat and Ted will be staying when they return to Barcelona and then took a quick taxi back to the ship. Off for the second “segment”, which for us was still the same cruise, to Rome now! Note: Not too happy with the pictures as they were taken from inside the bus – I will get better ones when we return to Barcelona in June for our tour of Spain!
