Matt and l decided that we will go for a bit of a wonder today and get some piccies as it is our last day here but turns out that we are going to spend more time in our hotel. We left to go for a walk and quickly realized that there weren't too many people around and that the shops were shut. This was strange. We then walked around the corner and saw 6 police vans, 2 motorbike cops and that the metro stations were shut. There was traffic blockades and a police he...

After another good sleep in, we managed to kind of get lost trying to find our way to the cable car that takes you to the top of Montjuic. Instead of taking the funicular (mountain train), we ended up walking halfway up the mountain, much to Khara's disgust. Montjuic has a really cool 17th century castle/fort that has a real drawbridge and lots of giant cannons overlooking the Mediterranean, oh, and they have beer and sangria at the kiosk. So then we took a bu...

Today's blog is going to be fairly boring. We plan on doing laundry and chilling out around the hotel. I will let you know if that pans out! - K Yep, a good old boring day, let's call it a planning day for tomorrow! -M

Today started out as a reminder to always read your paperwork!! Matt and I were joining a city tour so that we can figure out what to do over the next few days. We didn't realize that the 9am start was actually from a place 30mins away until it was too late. It turned out ok though because they let us move it to the afternoon tour which was a better tour anyway. Unfortunately, we basically did everything we wanted to do around town while waiting for the tour, s...

Dinner tonight consisted of: 1. Pastry wrapped fried prawns 2. Fried green peppers 3. Beef croquette 4. Baby squid 5. Garlic fried prawns 6. Bread 7. Ceviche salmon in dill and olive oil 8. Fried potatoes with garlic aioli 9. Marinated artichoke, eggplant and sun dried tomato 10. Ham sprinkled with paprika - K My favourites: Beef Croquettes, pastry wrapped fried prawns and Ceviche Salmon. After flying in from Cairo today feeling pretty ti...