{"id":2053,"date":"2014-04-29T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2014-04-29T22:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:33:57","slug":"a-day-in-barcelona-sailing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/a-day-in-barcelona-sailing-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Barcelona, Sailing On"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quest<\/a>Here we are \u2013 on the Mediterranean Sea, enroute from Barcelona to Tangier.\u00a0 Sounds like something out of Casablanca<\/a> but we\u2019re really on our way \u2013 another great adventure is born.<\/p>\n

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\"Barcelona<\/a>
Tourists symmetrically resting at Barcelona’s Pla\u00e7a Reial Fountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Barcelona was amazing; we only had a day and a half and, exhausted from our flight, slept through the half and awoke just in time to go to the pier and board our ship.<\/p>\n

\"Barcelona
Look carefully: lots of different things take place on Barcelona balconies – from sunbathing to gardening to laundry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No Zara, no mementos or gifts, but a brief wander around the old Jewish neighborhood and a spectacular walking tour of the great Gaudi buildings<\/a> that add so much to what is already a vital, beautiful, cosmopolitan city.<\/p>\n

Once aboard* we recalled what is so great about this sort of trip.\u00a0 The word \u201ccruise\u201d may summon visions of blue hair and stodgy folks but the truth is that people who choose this are gregarious (pretty tough to be otherwise in this collective environment) and love to swap travel stories \u2013 as well as tales about almost anything else.\u00a0 In our brief first day, we\u2019ve already met and spoken at length with people from Australia, Canada, Minnesota, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas. \u00a0All of them are avid explorers with amazing back stories.\u00a0 You\u2019ll meet them too, right here, as the days pass.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s late though, so I\u2019m keeping my post-a-day pledge without too much detail.\u00a0\u00a0 Know only that our flights were comfortable and on time, Barcelona enchanting and exhausting and our first half day at sea lovely and a great preview of all that is to come.\u00a0 You\u2019ll hear about all that, too.<\/p>\n

*The Seabourn QUEST<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we are \u2013 on the Mediterranean Sea, enroute from Barcelona to Tangier.\u00a0 Sounds like something out of Casablanca but we\u2019re really on our way \u2013 another great adventure is born.   Barcelona was amazing; we only had a day and a half and, exhausted from our flight, slept through the half and awoke just … Continue reading A Day in Barcelona, Sailing On<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[2612,2615,2614,2613],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-travel","tag-barcelona","tag-cruise","tag-gaudi","tag-spain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}