Saturday
On our last day in Barcelona, after a slow start, I went off shopping by myself for an hour. No point getting cracking early as most shops don’t open until 11. Turning left from our apartment in the old part of town, there were 2 streets, Calle de Princesa and Calle de Carders, that formed a triangular shape with a main road at the end. This was great as it meant I could walk up one street, across, and down the other one, with no danger of getting lost – and I’d got to know our little corner of town quite well anyway - it was starting to feel like home!!
After my (quite unsuccessful) little pressie finding expedition, we grabbed bikes again and set off across town to bike around the waterfront. The waterfront is amazing – a bit like Wgtn multiplied by 100, there’s miles of it, and golden beaches all the way – just fantastic.
We loved Barcelona and felt a bit sad to be leaving; it’s definitely going on our list of places to return to one day.
Sunday
Caught the 8.45 train to Montpellier and connected from there to a train to Nimes. We arrived in town about 4pm– the temperature here is about 18 to 20 and it feels freezing after our days and nights of 28+ degrees!!! Unfortunately I’ve been sniffling and sneezing all day too.
Anyway, after a couple of hours settling in and blobbing we set off for a quick look around town. Nimes is quite a smallish town (pop. About 140,000) and was the first Roman settlement in France - it has its own colosseum – apparently Metallica recorded one of their albums in it!! – look forward to exploring more tomorrow and hope to be feeling better.
PS. There seem to be a lot of nice shoe shops!
On our last day in Barcelona, after a slow start, I went off shopping by myself for an hour. No point getting cracking early as most shops don’t open until 11. Turning left from our apartment in the old part of town, there were 2 streets, Calle de Princesa and Calle de Carders, that formed a triangular shape with a main road at the end. This was great as it meant I could walk up one street, across, and down the other one, with no danger of getting lost – and I’d got to know our little corner of town quite well anyway - it was starting to feel like home!!
After my (quite unsuccessful) little pressie finding expedition, we grabbed bikes again and set off across town to bike around the waterfront. The waterfront is amazing – a bit like Wgtn multiplied by 100, there’s miles of it, and golden beaches all the way – just fantastic.
We loved Barcelona and felt a bit sad to be leaving; it’s definitely going on our list of places to return to one day.
Sunday
Caught the 8.45 train to Montpellier and connected from there to a train to Nimes. We arrived in town about 4pm– the temperature here is about 18 to 20 and it feels freezing after our days and nights of 28+ degrees!!! Unfortunately I’ve been sniffling and sneezing all day too.
Anyway, after a couple of hours settling in and blobbing we set off for a quick look around town. Nimes is quite a smallish town (pop. About 140,000) and was the first Roman settlement in France - it has its own colosseum – apparently Metallica recorded one of their albums in it!! – look forward to exploring more tomorrow and hope to be feeling better.
PS. There seem to be a lot of nice shoe shops!
I have to say that it’s good to be back in a place where I can speak a bit of the language – I hated knowing no Spanish!! 
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