On October 6 I leave for Barcelona, where I will have three days to poke around before boarding the Celebrity Century for a 7-day cruise that stops in Cannes, Portofino, Livorno, Rome and Naples.
Staying at a three-star hotel is always a crap shoot in Europe for not all three-star hotels are created equally. Some are cozy boutique hotels that make you feel right at home and others are drafty, noisy places that make you wish you had spent just a little more so you could get a good night's sleep. How much is a good night's sleep worth?
I will be staying at the Hotel Astoria in the L'Eixample neighborhood, which is a part of town where I am told you should always look up because you will undoubtedly see many intriguing and whimsical facades of the countless buildings that Modernista architects raised in a few short decades around the turn of the 20th century.
I'm hoping that Hotel Astoria is as comfortable, welcoming, and well-located as I think it will be and as I count down the days to my departure, the need to feed my tapas fix grows ever stronger.
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What a wonderful blog!!!! Enjoy your stay in Barcelona, but be careful looking up. There are also pigeons there! Mary Adams
ReplyDeleteHi Mary,
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying Barcelona. It is unseasonably warm here so I'm walking around in short sleeve shirts and loving it. Beats the heck out of being in Seattle right now.
I not only have to be careful about looking up because of pigeons; I've been stepping off curbs without realizing it because I'm so busy looking up at all of the unusual modernista buildings!
Cheers,
Colleen