Barcelona - Spain

Well the end of one segment of our cruise and what a joy it's been. Beautiful places we've seen and a few new friends to add to our list. There were 3 other huge ships when we docked in Barcelona, thousands of people on them, some going home and others getting excited getting on.
We took a bus to the town centre and wandered the cobbled streets for a few hours looking at the beautiful buildings and little shops . Hundreds of souvenir shops, not sure how they survive, all sell exactly the same things. Went to the huge marketplace where they also sell everything, packed with the locals buying their weekend goodies. Lovely array of goods all fresh especially the fish, do like looking at them, different varieties than some of ours and twice as cheap. We must have the dearest fish in the world. Also unprocessed  hare, pigeons , rabbit,  pheasant and a few more.
Back to the ship and of course new people coming on, so ended up lunching on the patio as the Verandah was full. After sailaway we went to the lounge and met up some members of Cruise Critic , an online site where you ask people about what they think of ships, restaurants etc , anything to do with cruising. Nice hour or so.
Today is a sea day. Tony went to a lecture, and I did some chores. Then to trivia, mainly poms, all knew everything, so we'll see about continuing there, could end up in a war.
Captains welcome tonight, which are always quite good.
Tomorrow Gibraltar and perhaps an encounter with the Barbary apes or tail-less monkeys .