{"id":717,"date":"2011-07-05T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/?p=717"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:10:37","slug":"leaving-calella-arrive-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/leaving-calella-arrive-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Calella arrive Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leaving Calella arrive Barcelona<\/a>, a set on Flickr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We were up early and had our buffet breakfast and then packed up our stuff for the trip to Barcelona. Today we drop the car off at the Barcelona airport at Terminal 2.
\nWe left Calella after getting the car out of the underground parking (that had a extremely steep drive) and set Jennifer the GPS on course. We had a little time on our side so we stopped and took some photos of the coastline Of Calella towards where we had stayed which included some of the Costa Bravo. When I took the photos from above the beach it was not hard to notice that this was not only topless but fully naked, so had to be a bit discreet with the camera. (see pics of the beach)
\nWe arrived into Barcelona on time for the 11am drop off and looking for Terminal 2 which we thought we had found but soon realized we were getting lost. Thankfully the people we were supposed to meet had seen us and drove along beside us and advised that we were towards terminal 2 but for the train station and not the airport….oooops. We followed them to the drop off point at which stage they asked us for the red insurance folder for the car. Neither of us could remember this and could not find it. The man started telling us that it would cost \u00e2\u201a\u00ac200 to replace them. Thankfully I remembered that I had but them in with the passports and with a large sigh of relief we took our last look at the Peugeot, that had been so good to us and taken us more than 2800km’s. I took a photo of the total Kms we had done, jumped in a waiting taxi and were off to the Hotel Oasis only 15 mins away in Barcelona.
\nWe could not check in until 1pm so put our bags in storage and started getting our bearings from the map the Hotel gave us. We were soon at the beach and having a look around a much busier beach than we had seen so far (see pic). Back at the Hotel we got our room and set off again looking for information on the hop on hop off bus that we had heard was really good. There are two main companies and the one owned by the city bus service offered the most routes so have bought tickets for the following two days starting at 9am tomorrow. This will give us a good over view and look at the city similar to what we did in Florence.
\nLater in the day we bought tickets to a wax museum called Muse de Cere. This was a very well organized, themed museum with a lot of wax figures from throughout the ages until modern day. They had some interactive parts like being inside a launching space ship, under water sub & older sailing ship which was moving under your feet.
\nAfter this we booked a 1 hr, 30 coast & port cruise around the harbor and Barcelona coast line (see pics). Barcelonna has some very interesting city centre architecture in the tall buildings of different shapes & sizes than we have seen any where else.
\nLater that night we went out for tapas ( very much the done thing here) again at a restaurant just along the road before heading home feeling a little tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaving Calella arrive Barcelona, a set on Flickr. We were up early and had our buffet breakfast and then packed up our stuff for the trip to Barcelona. Today we drop the car off at the Barcelona airport at Terminal 2. We left Calella after getting the car out of the underground parking (that had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-barcelona","tag-calella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}