In Barcelona, we bought a Barcelona Card for unlimited rides on the metro system which we only used once to ride from the airport to Passing de Gracia station. From there we rolled our carry-on’s the Axel Hotel that bills itself as “hetero-friendly.” Although it is popular with gay people, there were plenty of straight people there as well. It is a very nice hotel. We were upgraded to a “superior” room.
The hotel is in a “gay” area of Barcelona and we did look at various gay bars in the neighborhood but didn’t go in any of them. The dance clubs don’t get started until about two in the morning and we just can’t stay up that late anymore.
Milton at the Starbucks on La Rambles.
From Barcelona, we took a train to Sitges, Spain. My friend, Kathleen, had told me about Sitges, otherwise I would have never heard of it. It is a small, gay friendly, beach community about 45 miles outside Barcelona. We were using my iPhone GPS to tell us when to get off the train and we lost the signal and missed our stop. Others told us it was Sitges, but I deferred to my iPhone as these same people had told us other stops had been Sitges, too, and by the time we actually got to Sitges, I didn’t think they knew what they were talking about. We went one stop too far and had to take the next train back.
After spending the weekend in Sitges, we returned to Barcelona on Monday.
See that huge tower way off in the distance in the pic below? The tallest thing on the horizon? That is one of the towers for the cable cars that take you from the port to Montjuic, a small mountain with great views. That is where we are standing in this pic. I wanted to find the Funicular de Montjuïc to ride down the mountain, but we had got off the wrong metro stop for the cable car and had to walk a couple of miles around the harbor and Milton was exhausted and was drifting into cranky time, so we walked down the mountain and found a metro back to the hotel to take a nap.
This is a pic of the Barcelona beach from the cable car.
