Au Revoir y Bienvenido! (08/02/26-09/02/26)

Leaving early in the morning, we just wanted to burn rubber and get away from this apartment.

We also wanted a macaron!

Good luck finding patisseries open Sunday morning. JP had mapped a couple in Lyon, but nothing was open.

We did find a Braille memorial. Turns out, there’s a big braille memorial here.

Instead he found something, we stopped and loaded up on sweets, and then left France

Well, we drove

And drove

Stopped for some food in Montpellier and met ET, the Mario Bros, and a tiny, itty, bitty car

Arriving in the town of Dos Rius, we were greeted by our host, a lovely musician and previous occupant of our AirBnB. He grew up in this house, and there was definitely a complete element of people still living here.

DVDs, a library, comfy furniture, a piano (hallelujah), a swimming pool (brrr), and a couple of fire places.

We got comfy and JP almost immediately built a fire.

In the morning, JP took the dogs on a long walk and discovered the remnants of an old fort. He probably should’ve turned back, but it was definitely the road less traveled, and the dogs always love good long walks!

Leaving for the morning, we drove first to a nearby town Mataró, and went right to the beach.

This may be the most tragic part of the trip so far. Though the girls had a great time running around, and sea water, and beach time, Ayelet also lost her camera 😥

Lesson learned, pay attention to your belongings.

From Mataró we drove out to Barcelona to get some lunch. There’s a kosher shop, and we wanted to walk around a bit, so JP found some parking garage, and we did just that: walked around.

There’s a lot of artist shops, kitsch stores, and whatnots.

The food was ok, but the seagulls attacking people for their food in the open-air food court was way more entertaining. Sadly we watched at least one person have their entire meal snatched by the birds.

By the way: birds aren’t real (dot com)