Barcelooonaaaaaaaaaa!

This weekend saw me and 6 girlies head off into the sunset to Barcelona for Laura's first hen party. I met Kath and Claire at London Bridge and we caught our train ok to Gatwick. We met Laura, Verity, Alice and Louise in Wetherspoons where they were polishing off a pink cocktail! After brief introductions and the handing out of T-Shirts we headed off to security.

Everyone was waved through apart from me because my pre-printed boarding pass didn't have a barcode. Everyone else had to go through and I was sent off to a very long Easyjet queue. As I was waiting in the queue I happened to glance at the defective boarding card only to realise Loz had mixed them up and given me the return trip! After a phone call and some begging of a security guard I was back at security meeting my boarding card!

We just had time for a bottle of champagne to calm our nerves before getting on the plane!

I had looked at the best way to get from the airport to the hotel on the web and they recommended the train as a quick and easy way of getting there. They lied. It was a 10 minute walk to the train station (mainly because we walked in the wrong direction because there were no signposts) and then another 15 minute walk in between the train station and the metro. Luckily the metro was airconditioned as we were getting a bit hot and bothered at this point. It was only a 2 minute walk from the metro to our hotel but we had managed to exit the wrong way and ended up with a rather brisk trot through a rather scary looking council estate!

After all this we definately needed the glass of wine in the hotel bar!


The hotel definately made up for the treck, there were huge twin rooms, complimentary robes and slippers, a free minibar and 2 pools.

Saturday we were up early for a dip in the pool on the 23rd floor with a fantastic view of the sea. Then it was off to breakfast. None of us had ever seen as big a breakfast before! They had everything you could possibly imagine, including roasted vegetables, pizza and tomatoes stuffed with tuna! Of course there was also the traditional eggs and bacon as well as fruit, cereal, muffins, pastries, bread, toast, cheese, ham, cured meat, salami and sausages! Having filled up our tummies and our purses with snacks for later we headed back to our rooms to get ready to go out for the day.