Today we head home. For most of us, it is two days' worth of travel. A few have the post-trip extension and a few more are spending more than a few days traveling around parts of Europe. For me, it is time to go home.
Most of us are traveling back to Barcelona today on the high-speed train. Once again, a bus is taking our luggage back to Barcelona after dropping us off at the train station.
The high-speed train is fun although it involves an additional step. Erwin brought his garmin on the train and turned it on and we topped out at 125mph. You would never know we were going that fast because it was still very smooth.
We spent the night in the same hotel as during the pre-trip (Hotel 1898). It was nice enough but it was the enormous breakfast buffet that we will remember.
Since we had seen most of the attractions in Barcelona during the pre-trip, we found it hard to get motivated to see the "lesser" attractions. The rain also made it less pressing. So after we finished getting settled, we went out looking for lunch. We spent the next seven hours alternately eating, walking to another restaurant, eating, walking, eating, and having a beer or two at each stop. It was a nice and relaxing way to spend the last day.
The travel day was uneventful. Our flight was in the early afternoon so our transfer left at mid-morning. Flying east to west is much easier and I was able to doze between multiple movies. There is more urgency to sleeping when flying the other direction which of course makes it harder to sleep.
We had a four-hour lay-over in JFK which sounds like a lot of time but between clearing customs, passport control, re-checking luggage, clearing TSA again, it ensured that we were not worried about getting through the long lines. We much prefer flying in and out of Detroit over JFK.
We have begun to talk about next year's trip.
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