Girona, Spain

Along a river, halfway between picturesque Cadaqués on the sea and Barcelona, is a charming, historic town called Girona, complete with medieval architecture, gardens, and watchtowers.

This time Laura and Alex’s room is located right over shops and restaurants.

They can relax on their balcony and still feel like they’re out experiencing Spain. It’s loud at night though!

Turns out Girona is a cycling mecca, so now Alex wants to move there! Too bad they can’t do their remote work from Spain!

All too soon it is time to head home. Although it was a good thing, Laura says, because on their last morning there, workers started doing construction on their building and it was very loud!

There was a train strike so they had to take the bus to Barcelona.

Laura says “We caught a bus bound for Barcelona airport, and figured we’d take it to the end since our hotel is near the airport. But then as soon as we hit Barcelona the traffic was horrible, so we got off at the first bus station on the far side of town. Then we took the subway to the center of town and left our bags at a storage place, and got some lunch about two hours later than usual. We got in some last minute shopping, ate vegan ice cream, and picked up empanadas for dinner. Then we picked up our bags and took the subway to the hotel. Just got here, tired and hungry.”

Early the next morning the headed to the airport to take their rapid covid test. The kind, she says, where they “stick the swab aaaaaall the way up”. It only takes 20 minutes for the results, and then they’re allowed to check in.

Here they are hanging out in the airport lounge, getting breakfast.

The breakfast that was provided consisted of soft pretzels, grilled chicken, and sauerkraut. And candy mice, lol. She says they look and feel like marshmallows, but are more like gummy candies when you eat them.

I’ve always found breakfast to be strange in other countries. Often what is eaten for breakfast is the same types of foods as is eaten for lunch and dinner. Spicy shrimp soup with lots of garlic in Thailand, salmon and seaweed with raw egg in Japan, etc. So hey, gummy marshmallow mice isn’t actually all that bad!

Laura and Alex arrived home safely late Saturday night. Now I’ll go back to blogging about our new puppy, who has grown immensely in the past week!

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