On Tuesday we drove from Madrid to our hotel in Castelldefels near the Barcelona airport. We had to return from Barcelona as we got a much better airfare from there as compared to Madrid. The drive was supposed to take 5 hours but it ended up being closer to seven due to miles and miles of road construction between Madrid and Zaragosa. We wanted to see Montserat on the way but all the extra driving put an end to that. We had a nice dinner at a very local Catalan restaurant and flew home the next morning on USAir direct from Barcelona to Philadelphia. The flight was less than half full.
Couple of random final thoughts:
The food in Spain is good but not very highly seasoned. In fact, we were only given salt and pepper at our table at one meal. Even supposed spicy dishes like Papas Bravas were pretty bland.
The Spanish seem to be fond of shirts with American wording on them. We saw almost none with Spanish writing but a lot with “South Cali”, etc. on them. In Barcelona we of course saw a lot of soccer jerseys as they had just won the championship of Spain.
The climate, while not really desert-like, isn’t conducive to growing tall trees. We saw a lot of orange and olive trees but not really many large trees.
One thing I did not like was paying to visit a cathedral. I can't recall another country where you had to pay to get in. It wasn't cheap either. The entrance price was normally 7 or 8 euros.
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