Well we did actually see Castell de Montjuïc and the wonderful mountain-side cemetery;
We tried to follow the instructions
It was Lord Dunsany who once said “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” It is that time to travel and we have done so; unlike the worm, we took a much more tortuous route: Fort Collins – Denver – Philadelphia – Madrid – Barcelona. Will we do this again? I hope not!
Dude’s got a parachute!
In addition to the little Minolta camera that I have carried for the past two years to provide photographic evidence for this blog I have also been using the camera included in my Nintendo DSi. I found it to be easy to carry and good for candid shots. Sure, it’s got a fixed focus lens and the resolution is poor but I can hold it while I walk onto a plane and take picture of fellow travelers.
Watching our bag in Madrid
The baggage handlers were ignoring our bag (the brown one on the ground) and didn’t seem to be working until a woman with a clip-board came over and yelled at them to start moving. She pointed to our bag and they quickly placed it on board the plane going to Barcelona. Will the other three bags make it as well?
Loading bags onto the ship
Yes, they are looking down between the pier and the side of the ship. The makeshift ramp they were using broke and some of the passenger’s bags fell into the Adriatic Sea. I saw them fishing them out and wondered just who the lucky passengers were! Was this a harbinger of things to come?
Note: Jeanne and I decided to go on a Mediterranean cruise with some friends. We’ve never really been on a big cruise ship (except for Alaska) and thought that it would be a chance to experience the whole concept of constantly eating and touring a different country each day much like in the 1969 movie “If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium“. The ratio of the number of countries per days at sea were about the same as in the movie so I must believe that things have not changed much since 1969. We actually started our journey on September 1st, but I was certain that I would not be able to update this blog while at sea so I pre-date loaded a number of posts before leaving town. And now I and post-date loading this stuff. Yes, I can do that!
