It ia now four forty five and Ken and I have just finished lunch, a most wonderful lunch I might add. This is life in Catalonia, where you eat lunch at three and dinner at nine, except, we will probably skip dinner. Our dinner was wonderful with excellent food and excellent service. Ken and I are calling it dinner even though in Barcelona they just thanked us for having lunch with them. Our hotel is right beside the Medeterranian so after dining we walked around outside to watch the harbor and the cruise ships. Barcelona is certainly a busy place.
This morning we took a bus tour of the city, stopping to see five different and important places of the town. This is a very old town. The Romans turned it into a main city of the area but a town was already there when they took over, in one hundred and fifty B.C. This morning we saw the old and the new and both were wonders to behold. We looked at the ramparts of the old walled city, build by the Romans, along with a. Section of the original wall. At one time it was a walled city housing ten thousand inhabitants. Now i has a population of over four Million people. It is a bit like Vancouver as it has the mountains an three sides of the city and the Sea on the other so it is a very crowded city indeed.
This morning in the old section of town, a brass band was playing and many folks were dancing in the Catalan style, all wearing special old dancing shoes. Evidently, every Sunday the folks gather in front of the old Cathedral to dance, in the oldStyle. It was charming indeed. You certainly knew that we were not in Kansas.
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