We decided to have a slower day on Tuesday, and ordered tickets to the Aquarium. The Aquarium has the largest collection of Mediterranean fish in it, and we love zoos and aquariums in general. We got off to an easy start to the metro at about 9:30 a.m. We stopped and looked at the Christopher Columbus memorial when we got off the metro, and then walked to the aquarium itself.
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| Riding a Metro on our way to the port |
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| At the Christopher Columbus Monument |
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| Our world class travelers |
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| Kids found a school of large fish hanging by the pier |
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| On the pier |
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| On our way to the aquarium |
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| Lots of tourist were using segways to move around the city. |
The aquarium was a bit smaller and tighter than what we expected, but there were some fun exhibits. We spent a few hours wandering around and looking at the fish, penguins, and other sea creatures.
After we finished at the Aquarium, we walked to the Barcelona beach, which is the public beach. It was an overcast day with intermittent sprinkles. It wasn't cold, but wasn't really a warm day either. We have been in the ocean plenty lately, so we didn't have the kids take off their shoes and wade in the water. The beach was not very crowded. As we walked we saw a few people swimming. As we got closer we noticed that the swimmer coming out of the water next to us was a woman and was quite topless. That was something we really hadn't thought about on the type of day it was, and the kids were a bit shocked. Europe!
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| Barcelona Beach. We added the Mediterranean Sea to the list of seas and oceans we've been to. |
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| Watching the waves |
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| Sisters |
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| As always, Lexa was looking for shells |
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| Watching the sea |
We walked down the beach to the Port Olimpic area where the Olympic games beach water sports were held during 1992. We knew there were a lot of sea food restaurants in the area. We picked one, sat down and had an enjoyable lunch. The twins shared a pizza but the rest of us tried different things. Lina had octopus which was a big tentacle. Nika had a sea bass. I had a sole, and Yulia had a risotto. We had a great meal and enjoyed it.
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| This was a fancy restaurant but it was worth the money |
We walked form Port Olimpic to the bus station and bought tickets to go the next day to Servera to visit Yulia's friend Olya from Krasnoyarsk. We took the Metro home and spent a quiet evening in our neighborhood. We ate at a little restaurant near our house - they weren't open when we got there at 7:30, so we got the bar food sandwiches and sides. We weren't too hungry since we had a nice lunch. We struck out trying to find Gelato in the neighborhood, so we promised the kids we'd try again on Thursday. We went to bed a bit early so we could make it to the bus station in plenty of time the next morning.
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