Arrival & sightseeing in Barcelona

Saturday 7th of January 2023 

Barcelona - The capital of Catalonia

Arrival in Barcelona, a bit late. Another train before us broke down and they had to evacuate the passengers and tow the train off the tracks. So we got 45 minutes delayed. But today this wasn´t an issue: we had plenty of time since we were going to stay in the city over the night. This because there were no trains to Paris this afternoon.

Sightseeing in Barcelona

There are plenty of things to see in the Catalan capital. We took the metro from Sants Train Station, to the centre of Barcelona. We went to visit Casa Battló, which was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. More info about this fantastic building here: CASA BATTLÓ

The church La Sagrada Familia

Next, we were off to another building designed by Antoni Gaudí. The amazing church La Sagrada Familia (The Holy Family). They started building it in 1882 and eventhough Gaudí died in 1926, they have kept on building it ever since (with a few stops). We wonder if they will ever finish...

In any case, it´s a crazy building, with a million details to look at.

More info about La Sagrada Familia

Sushi for dinner

We came back early to the hotel, we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow. On Sunday 8th of January we will travel Barcelona > Paris > Basel > Hamburg. That is going to be close to 2,000 km!!

I had sushi for dinner in Barcelona!

Good night, see u tomorrow!

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And we are off to Sweden!

Our train trip to Sweden - Day #1

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Saturday 7th of January 2023

The Big Day is here, we are leaving Seville for Sweden. We were up early this morning, a 07:00, to go to the train station Sevilla-Santa Justa. Departure of the first train at 08:50.

Seville train station: Santa Justa

Saturday 7th of January 2023

Seville to Barcelona

The first leg of our trip is Seville - Barcelona, more than 1,000 km.

The first leg of the journey will take us some 5 hours 30 minutes. Arrival in Barcelona at 14:20.

AVE  - The Spanish High Speed Train

Image courtesy of Renfe AVE & Wikipedia ES

Me leaving for Barcelona, Saturday 7th of January 2023

We are travelling by AVE today, the Spanish high speed train. We will travel at some 270 km/h, flying through the Spanish landscape!

We start our trip in style, travelling first class on the AVE. It´s because 2nd class was already fully booked. But first class was cheap with our Interrail Global Pass, only 13,40 euros per person.

First Class - I´m VIP! 😆

We´ll be staying in Barcelona tonight, because there was no good connections to continue our trip today.

Hopefully we will have time to see a bit of Barcelona, I have never been to this city before.

Tomorrow (Sunday 8th of January 2023), we travel from Barcelona to Paris, France.

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