Enrico's Travel Blog

October 8, 2026 Thursday Le Méridien Hotel, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Today is our first full day on the Tauck Tour of Norther Spain: Barcelona to Porto (Portugal). Breakfast is in Cent0nze. It may have been pointed out that a couple places it is writer Cent111onze. Mike pointed out that centonze is one-hundred-and-eleven, in French. He may have also pointed out that the address of the restaurant is 111 Las Ramblas. It must not be omitted that the connection was never mad

Wednesday Le Méridien Hotel, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain We started the day by having breakfast with Mike & Maddie here in the hotel in the breakfast room. They were going to see Sagrada Família this morning with their friends from New Jersey. We will connect up with them again at the Tauck welcome party and dinner. There are twenty-six people, including us, on the tour. We decided to ride the Barcelona Bus Turístic. After breakfast we headed back to the room to get ready

October 6, 2026 Tuesday Le Méridien Hotel, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain We have the entire day off before we start our Tauck Tour with Mike & Maddie. We usually plan an extra day into our travels just in case something goes awry. While yesterday’s flight was quite literally the flight from hell, we did still manage to get to Barcelona on our scheduled day. Having that extra day allows us to relax and, possibly, recover from the travel day. We got going later than usual thi