First return
to Barcelona/ Carlos Pueblo
I finished
four nights staying in Malaga and should first return to Barcelona
for my seven
days cruise trip to the Mediterranean. It took about 6 hours
from Malaga
to Barcelona on high speed train AVE. I was assigned to a
silent coach
with a middle age Spanish lady named Charlotte. She and I had
had some
conversation yet it was not broadly due to my Spanish limit. The
train ran
with great speed with few stops on the way. On the west side,
it is Sierra
Nevada mountains with no snow cap at the time. I saw that
Korean
student again with two of his Korean fellow students who just finished
their tour
to Granada.
After
checking in to the hostel, I asked the market direction on La Lambla. Anna
at the front
desk, who helped me to change one night stay schedule, indicated
that Passeig
de Garcia to la Plaza de Catalunya and could see La Lambla on a side
street. The
streets from the hostel to the market were all full of people. It was very
difficult to
find a seat in the counter restaurant inside the market yet I found one.
I ordered a piece
of snow fish and changed to a small sword fish due to lack of supply.
The grilled
fish was fresh and tasty with two glasses of cold beer. My next seats were
two Chinese
students, from Macau, China, who ordered a big plate of sea food
combination
with shrimps, clams, crabs, fish etc. Kelly Cheng was very busy to take
pictures of
the plate. They go to school in Munich, Germany. She mentioned the
annual
German Beer festival in late September and I was thinking of another opportunity
to come back
to Europe.
Passing by
the travel agency which I had reserved a last minute cruise deal, I dropped
by to say
hallo to the agent. I explained to her what I had found of the reasons why I
could not
get a full deposit of $250 applied to my ticket. One of the two reasons is
the U.S.
dollar vs Euro exchange fee, another one is solo traveler makes less profit for
the cruise.
The advantage is that the cruise company apply U.S.$100 to the tips on the
account;
therefore, I make another deposit again on this trip.
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