This morning we let ourselves sleep in, and boy was it nice! Am looking forward to our bed back in London though, I have to admit... So we headed out a little after 10am, stopping briefly at a bakery on the way, and heading to Playa de Espanya. From there you can see all the way up the Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina to the Museum.
We walked up the avenue, admired the Magic Fountain (although it wasn't being magic yet), and walked up the steps to the Museum. We thought that was a good view, we hadn't seen anything yet! We followed the road around to the botanic gardens, to the Teleferic (cable car) up to Castell Montjuïc.
The ride was beautiful and the views only got better as we got higher, however the castle wasn't all that I'd hoped. It was cheap entry (€5, rather than the €25 we'd paid for Casa Batllo the previous day!) but it was rather small and very windy. Not to mention that we got there at lunch, but the car/cafe marked on the map was under construction and all they had was 5 vending machines! I was a bit grumpy about that.
On our way down we stopped at the halfway point to have a wander through the park, and then caught the cable car back to the bottom of the hill. From there, we got a funincular to the metro station, then headed to the beach! By this point we were ravenous (and it was 5pm), so we headed to the place Richard and I had had tapas a few days ago. We had a couple of jugs of sangria and tapas for our last proper meal in Barcelona, and a lovely one it was too! We were some of their last customers for the day, so they even gave us free shots of Limoncello!
By the time we got back to the apartment, it was 7:30, so we rested a while, then headed back to the Magic Fountain for the magic part. It does a light and sound display a few times a week at 9 and 9:30, and it was pretty spectacular! Lights, music and water all synchronised. Very cool.
We made a quick snack stop (and bathroom break) at a KFC, then headed back into the metro, returning to the Sagrada Familia so Richard could take some nighttime shots. He may have also slightly dropped his camera, but it seems okay. We got back on the metro just before it stopped running at midnight, then headed home for sleep.
Parents and David leave for their next destinations early tomorrow morning - we have one extra day, because we don't fly out until 8:30pm! So one more post before it's back to London...
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