Day 8 Paris to Barcelona

The morning was an early one as we needed to take our train at 10am from another train station in Paris.  Most of us had an early breakfast.  At 8:15am we made our way to the train station across the street to take an RER train to Gare du Lyon (the station where we will take our train to Barcelona).  our train arrived and all would have been fine except ... too many people tried to get into the same car door and their was not enough time for them to do that and the train had to leave.  Leaving 10- 12 people waiting to enter that car could not get on. One of our staff and our French guide were there to help them take the next train (a few minutes later).  Once we had everyone at Gare du Lyon we had only about 20 minutes to wait for our train to arrive.   We boarded quickly and were soon on our way to Barcelona.  The train ride was fun we had people in 2 cars of the train and most of us slept fine on the train a few were singing others were quiet reading or doing puzzles. people said they did not sleep too well (but that is the same thing they said when we flew to London) some people can sleep while moving and others cannot.


We arrived into the All Saints train station in Barcelona and were transported to our Hotel by motor coach.  The hotel is the newest one that we have stayed in . It is a Holiday Inn Express and has all the new up to date features it is very similar to any in the USA.  Everyone was hungry after the long train ride.  We walked a short distance from our hotel to one of the main walking streets in Barcelona Rambla del Poblenou and found many good restaurants to eat at even though it was about 8pm.   After dinner everyone went to bed.... travel days are difficult and tiring.

Tomorrow ... the hop on hop off tour of Barcelona