Farewell Barcelona....

There is a fountain in Barcelona that you are supposed to drink from if you want to return to Barcelona ever again. Needless to say we didn’t proceed with this and went to do something else a bit different, we went to the Barcelona Zoo.

Normally not high on my list of must do’s, but it was interesting to go to a zoo in a foreign country for a change.

(Parc de la Ciutadella)

Due to some changes to the train timetable, we were forced to take the night train to Granada which is the next stop. As a final twist of the knife from Barcelona, after waiting 30 minutes for a taxi, we had to walk to the Metro and lug our suitcases up and down stairs to get to the station for our train.

To sum Barcelona up? Out of all the cities I have been to in the world, Barcelona is an outright last. It has some nice features, but overall, it is a busy, congested city that seems to have people wandering everywhere, but no overall sense of purpose. To paraphrase the Comic Book Store Guy from The Simpsons “Most Disappointing City Ever”