We got up early, packed our stuff and locked it in the hotel lobby, went for breakfast at a little café on Paseo de Gracia, especially enjoying the coffee and then took off for a walk through the city. We certainly didn't fullfill our goal not to shop that day - but at least we limited ourselves to a few stores only.

Walking loops and stopping occasionally for coffee or shopping, we made it to some interesting streets with locals hanging out, walking their dogs, drying their laundry or shopping on Mercat de Sant Antoni. We lost track of time ambling along and got a bit stressed finding the way back to our hotel to pick up our luggage. Cussing over those damn suitcases we made it to the Estacion de Autobuses de Nord and jumped the bus taking us to our family in Begur. After almost three hours watching the land pass by and falling asleep eventually, we got warmly welcomed by my dad, his wife and my little sibblings with spaghetti and wine.


Morning sun.


I saw what you did.


Pedestrian.


Tall men like short dogs.


Mercat de Sant Antoni.


Laundry day in Barcelona.


Meat meat meat (sister) meat meat meat.


Sleeping beauty on the street.


Sleeping beauty on the bus.

All photos: Carolin Weinkopf

This is the end of my "in words" series of my Tour d'Europe. The last days at the beach were my private escape from real life and I rarely took pictures. I'll post some, for sure, but this is the end of the story to be told. I'm back at home in Berlin since two weeks, a bit post-travel depressed but all together happy, I went to Hamburg this weekend and have a bunch of new photos to show. Back to real life now and big news to tell in the next posts.

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