Bonnie and Dan Visit

As this summer may be our last in Spain so we decided to stay in Spain instead of going back to Canada and visiting our family and friend. For the last few months we have really been encouraging all of our family and friends to come visit us here in Barcelona. I think that our plan worked! Since the end of May, we have hosted 3 groups of visitors from Canada and we will have 3 more groups coming through in July and August.

On May 30th, Bonnie (Bob's sister) and her youngest son, Dan, arrived in Barcelona. It was so much fun showing them around. They were pretty happy with everything they were able to see and do. Here is a summary of their week here:

Sunday May 31st

- parc de Labirint

- Feste de la Cirera (cherry festival) in Santa Coloma de Cervelló (important to show them correfoc)

Monday June 1st (holiday for the kids because of segunda pascua or second Easter, because in Barcelona you need to celebrate Easter twice)

- Drove up to Begur and spent the afternoon at the beach in Sa Tuna

Tuesday June 2nd

- Downtown to la Rambla, Boqueria, Barri Gotic and la Catedral

Wednesday June 3rd

- La Sagrada Familia

- More exploring downtown

Thursday June 4th

- Bonnie does a gyrotonic session at a studio in Gràcia

- Parc Guëll

Friday June 5th

- A bit of shopping along Carrer Gran de Gràcia

- Bonnie does another gyrotonic session

- Bob meets them downtown to explore El Born, Parc de la Cuitadella and Barceloneta

- Flamenco show near Plaça Reial, http://www.masimas.com/tarantos (the show was pretty short, about 45min, but it was enough to get a taste of flamenco and the price for tickets online is only 8€)

Saturday June 6th

- Some shopping at the local street market in Esplugues (my favourite for finding clothes)

- Afternoon in Sitges at the beach and exploring the town

Sunday June 7th

- Afternoon in Montjuic (we discover that the castell de Montjuic is free every Sunday, and now they have a really neat interpretation centre that talks about the history of Montjuic)