Sat 4 March 2006
After arriving in Reus Airport (south of Barcelona) we interpreted the Catalan bus timetable and jumped on in time to trek the 1 or so hour trip into the city itself.
The scenery is just what I imagined - with a lot less colour. Spanish housing (you know the white rendered walls, pom-tan orange roof tiles all set like steps up the mountainside.

After a few hesitations as to which way to head towards our accommodation, we put our heads together and found the Catalunya metro stop was easy enough to navigate via the very reliable and cheap tube system. All going as one so organised would expect, we followed the easy enough directions. I was aware that I needed to call the apartment people on arrival to meet to get the keys. Bit of a major problem when the phone number is not on the email confirmation!!! Anyway, we planned to head to the ‘Informacio’ (for those of you who don’t speak Catalan that means information) to look up the accommodation – to no avail. We then headed for the internet café and got the phone number. Lucky the guy was just around the corner! We met Alex and he provided a lot of helpful information about touring Barcelona and the Apartment RamCat accommodation, which I might add if you ever go, great price, kitchen, brand new (thanks to Ikea) and perfect location – and not where we had originally headed for! Thank god – this was much nicer! The only thing we achieved the first night was walking down to the supermercado (supermarket!) to purchase bevies and begin our culinary adventure into Tapas World! (Did I mention that EVERYTHING goes with Sangria?)