International delight...

Greetings from Barcelona,

i am thrilled to report that the flights to Barcelona were uneventful.  There was no family of dumdums, no Sir-Mix-A-Lot booty in the face moments and frankly everyone was even well dressed, so they didn't even provide me coffee fodder bitching about fashion faux pas.  In fact flying International Business Class was a pretty luxurious flying experience.   

Barcelona is beautiful!  My hotel makes me realize how spoiled I've become staying in American hotels.  The bed is only marginally softer than sleeping on concrete, the walls are only marginally more sound proof than a curtain, in fact, I just heard the man in the room next door peeing, yay me!  Furthermore, the bathroom is the size of a postage stamp and the water pressure is roughly the equivalent of drizzle.  Washing my mop is going to be quite a feat.  Oh yeah and it's humid, in case that whole coastal thing wasn't a dead-giveaway, so my hair is, and will be, quite a sight to behold.   Luckily, the benefit of traveling alone is that no one knows me and I am certain I won't ever see any of these people again, so zero F's given.  

I still don't have an agenda for this trip.  I'm just taking it moment by moment.  I spent the afternoon and evening exploring and mostly just wandering around aimlessly.  Since I'm staying in the city center there is a lot to see and do.  Earlier this week I said that my agenda was walking, tapas and wine, followed by more walking, more tapas and more wine.  My first afternoon was walking, tapas and wine, followed by more walking, paella and Sangria.  Not quite the plan I indicated, but I can't imagine anyone is too surprised with that trajectory.   Tomorrow, ok technically later today, since it's currently 2am local time, I'm doing a hop on/hop off bus tour.  I figured that would be an easy way to see the entire city.  The bartender where I enjoyed my tapas and wine marked up my map to help me venture off the beaten path a bit, while taking advantage of the cheap transportation around the city.  

Well, I am actually yawning now, so hopefully that's a sign that I might be able to go back to sleep.  More to come soon....