It is one of our rules to try never to stay just one night in any one place but with our late change to attend the Bruce Springsteen concert in Milan we could only have one night in Avignon. This was poor planning as it would have been great to have had more time to explore this quiet French provincial town and a region known for, amongst other things, lavender.
So after only one night, Day 75 saw us back on two long train journeys, firstly from Avignon to Portbou on the French-Spanish border and then a local train from Portbou to Barcelona, arriving at about 8pm. It had now been three days in a row of travelling and our old backpack lifting muscles are starting to feel a little ragged. Nevertheless it is great to be back in a Spanish-speaking nation. (after all we had started this trip in Spanish speaking South America) After some difficulty we found our hotel right in the heart of Barcelona’s old town, not far from the famous La Rambles.
Our first priority was to try and find some food. We settled on a little ‘mum and dad’ type Spanish café not far from our hotel. Rarely have sausages, minute steak, chips and a green salad tasted better.
Barcelona is famous of course as being the host of the 1992 Olympics. It is a much larger, more diverse and more beautiful city than we had expected and we were excited about spending a couple of days exploring it.
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