Today was our travel day from Nimes to Barcelona. We bought breakfast and lunch food on the way to the train station, got there in plenty of time, and took the trains from Nimes to Figueres, Spain and then to Barcelona. Then, we took the subway to downtown to find our hotel. We walk out of the subway and find thousands of people and traffic from 6 directions! Luckily, we guessed the correct direction and had no trouble finding the hotel.
We went walking along the Ramblas, the main tourist strip in town and down to the wharf. We enjoyed just looking around at all the shops and people.
This is part of the Christopher Columbus monument at the end of the Ramblas. Columbus was from Genoa, Italy but was sponsored by King and Queen of Spain for his voyage to the New World. We came back to the hotel, did laundry, and waited until about 8:15pm to leave for dinner (most restaurants don’t open until 8:00, and most locals don’t start dinner until 9:00). We got dinner at this restaurant at the back of the farmers’ market which was mostly empty, and the food was fantastic. We had mussels and salad for an appetizer and paella for dinner, and sangria to drink. The waiter (owner?) was really nice to us and gave us champagne when we arrived and some kind of after-dinner drink/shot after dinner. All for 30 euros total! We walked around the Plaza de Catalunya square and went back to the hotel for the night.
