Uneventful (22nd August)

Ok so today was easily the most uneventful so far. We checked out (and possibly got ripped off by paying extra 'tax' than was advertised) and had our usual breakfast in the park of croissants and baguettes. While we ate we watched a pair of girls have a heated argument in French, then appear to make up, before starting the argument again. It took a few minutes and a couple of repetitions for us to come to the conclusion that they were most likely rehearsing lines for a play! Randomly Liz (who Shona knows from netball in Auckland) was also waiting for the same Busabout bus, so it was weird and cool to catch up on gossip from her. The drive is a total of 7:30 hours and gets us into Barcelona, Spain in time for us to head out and get some food. We go to Salamanca near the beach based on Kathryn Kirkpatrick's recommendation... but are sadly pretty disappointed in the paella that Shona has been looking forward to for AGES! It had heaps of bland peas and chicken chunks with bone fragments through it. Oh well... these things happen. We note that it's pretty funny to go a whole day with not a single photo, but to pad out this post we'll answer the questions that Jeremy asked us a couple of days ago. (1) Most annoying tourist nationality? = Australian... they aren't individually annoying, it's just annoying that half of Australia seems to be here! (2) Worst smelling place? = streets with pee on them... or the Barcelona kitchen after a curry storm (3) What was the sight that was so much bigger than you expected? = M Lauterbrunnen Valley, S Theatre in Orange (4) The item of food that you wish was sold in NZ? = easily Irn Bru a Scottish fizzy drink (5) What is the CD/Song that is the anthem of your trip so far? = definitely MJ.. and specifically "Don't stop till you get enough" seems to have been played to us all over the place! We've only used our iPods a few times... as most of the time there's been too much else to do :o)