Wednesday May 30th

We slept in a bit, packed and headed out to see a last few sites, grab some souvenirs and write our post-cards d’Espana. Our first stop was the Barcelona Cathedral which we had wandered across the first night unbeknownst. Sadly, the front façade was under construction and covered up by scaffolding thus not nearly as beautiful as the postcard pics. We then had to decide between the Museu d’Historia de la Ciutat (Barcelona City Museam) which presented an archeological dig tracing Barcelona’s history back to the Roman and Visigoth times or the famed Museu do la Xocolata (Chocolate Museum). To the chagrin of chocolate lovers everywhere we went for the history (Jim did, Carla was dragged along). After 1 hour of walking through historic laundry rooms and sewage tunnels of rock Jim officially lost his rights to pick Museums. In Jim’s defense, there was a very interesting video of Barcelona’s history, but Carla only liked that because she got to rest her feet. With only 1.5 hours left before the transport picked them up at the hotel, we decided to grab lunch and relax at a café. We went with a safe and quick meal of sandwich and pizza, but Carla’s relaxation period was interrupted by a gaggle of pigeons that chased her through the square for bits leftover pizza. After a quick stop for gelato on the way home, we grabbed our ride and arrived at the airport with two hours to spare.

The flights from Barcelona to Copenhagen to Gotenburg were relatively easy, minus the fact that we almost missed our flight in Copenhagen. We were chilling by the gate and didn’t hear the flight board (I think they only boarded it in Danish) until they called our names on the loud speaker. We can understand O’Brien in any language.

We saw the sunset as our plane landed at roughly 11pm local time. Gotta love those northern late summer nights. Our bags arrived in record speed in the Gotenburg airport and we were quickly on our way to the city with our Volvo chauffeur in his brand new pimped out Volvo S80 (the car had radar so you could set cruise control and it would adjust its speed to the cars around it, very James Bond). We arrived at the Radisson SAS in Gotenburg just after midnight.