Monday is a travel day. Kathryn had a meeting in the morning with the US Consulate in Barcelona, so I ventured off for a walk to and on the beach. I was warned that clothing was optional on the Barcelona beaches. I can only say, that I did not take any pictures, and that most of the topless women on the beach were at an age that they should have considered before making such a decision. I did take a swim in the Mediterranean Sea, very chilly, very salty and not so clean.
My hats off to one very special Barcelona Cab driver. I had walked quite a distance to the beach, and then up the beach, and I was running out of time to get back, so I took a cab. I left my camera bag in the cab by mistake. By the time I noticed it was missing, a half hour had gone by. I was just getting panicky on what to do, when the front desk called and said a cab driver wanted to see me. He had found the bag (containing both digital and camcorder) found an airline stub with my name on it in the bag, and brought it back to me. The bellman at the door said, “That is one very special cab driver, 99 out of 100 would have kept the cameras. I really think that Saint Mindy had something to do with it!
We traveled by train back to Madrid and ended up in the same room where we had stayed previously (that sure makes it easy for me!) Kathryn went to work for a couple of hours at the Embassy and I went out for a walking tour of the hotel neighborhood. We plan to eat cheap again, but back at the same restaurant where we had the great gazpacho.
I am trying to get into a “paella” cooking class, but they need two more people to sign up by Friday for that to happen.
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