Wednesday 22 September, fleeing to Barcelona
It is cold and wet when we leave home to drive to the airport. The thermometer says it is only 13 degrees Celsius (55 F) and it keeps raining all the trip. For the last part we take the train to Schiphol to flee to warm Barcelona. We took our summer holiday very early in the year and we have had a busy summer, so we really need a week of active rest now.




Even at eleven at night it is nice to sit outside and we don't need a sweater. Much better than the weather back home. We have no idea what we are going to do the coming days, but we are also curious what the festival La Mercé, which starts tomorrow, will bring. We are totally ready for it!
Back on our room we empty our bags and we discover that we have taken the notebook with us but not the charger... So we will not be able to write the travelogues every day and put pictures on the internet. The battery is already half empty so we have to be economical, just uploading the pictures from our digital cameras. Yes, Elisabeth has also a digital camera now (since last week), so she can test it this week. Fortunately, we brought a writing pad and if it is really becessary we can always buy an extra memory stick.