Our aircon works fine, have to have the window closed, dah !  Geneva says bed too hard, pillow too skinny and soft, well if we wanted it the way we are used to in at home, we should have stayed home !!!  Anyway we slept fine.  Went out to have a bite of b'fast, then in search of a special artwork by a Spanish artist, for Rick.  Will go there tomorrow.  Today we'll go to buy the ferry tickets to Civitavecchia, Italy.  (no we are not, see below).

I bought a Spanish ham sandwich and a Fanta for lunch, Geneva had a cup of Gelato.  

The sun is mostly out and shining, hung on a blue sky with a touch of whispery white clouds.  Boy does that sounds schmalzy !!  In other words it's quite warm outside, but we come back to a nice air conditioned room.  

Well, folks, we sat down and I made a diagram of our options to get from here to there, from Barcelona to our RCI condo in Italy on the French border.  And it seemed that flying to Turin is the best way to get there.  From there we will get a car to the condo.  It's the cheapest and the fastest.  It means we are staying one more nite here in Barcelona at our hotel, (and who is complaining about that), €86. in addition to the flight of €120. for 2 !!  By the way to get one € (Euro) you have to shell out $1.30.  

I've been trying to book the flight to Turin without much luck.  Our signal in our room isn't all that strong and their website is also doing funny things, we'll have to do it at the airport.  

We just came back from a nice supper.  I had a beer, Geneva a small bottle of white wine, we shared Gazpacho, (cold tomato soup) and Paella (a Spanish rice dish with different goodies in it cooked in a shallow metal pan, very Spanish) and that filled us up !!  As we walked a bit down the Rambla, we stopped to get a hot fudge sundae at . . . where ? . . . McDonalds of course !! And we sat there to watch the people walk by.  This reminds me a little bit of Hawaii when we sometimes went to Waikiki to just sit at a outdoor restaurant and watched the tourists walk by. 

We just noticed one thing and that is, the card key for the new rooms here gets used to turn the power on in the room by inserting it into a special slot on the wall as soon as you get inside the room.  That is a wonderful idea, but when you leave you have to remove it from the slot and take it with, to get back into the room.  But there is one problem, all the devices that are plugged into a wall outlet get their power cut off too, so no charging is going on while you are out of the room.  Now we have to make sure all our devices are plugged in during the night. 

I was finally able to complete my flight reservation with Ryan Air from here to Turin, an hour and a half flight, partly over water and France.  It's the cheapest and fastest way to get there.  Just under $200. dollars one way for the both of us, or €65. pp.  It would have cost us €250. just for the overnight ferry to Rome for me in a comfy chair and Geneva in a bunk bed with others.  And it would have used up one train day, about 12 hours, over night, with at least one train change.  One can see how the flight option won out !!!

There was a terrific thunder storm going on last night around midnight.  We could only see a portion of the sky from our window but it was big but also short.  And it rained hard for a short while.  We didn't want to go out and see how everybody had to scramble, restaurants and the walking humanity !