The train in Spain falls mainly... in it's standards

Horrible Spanish train! We were in first class, which was full of seats like scratchy material lounges from the seventies. All brown and orange and yuck. Very slow train. We didn’t get reservations because we didn’t think they’d be necessary. They weren’t required on the last Spanish train we were on and we couldn’t book reservations when we first tried.

Finally an apartment!

Had to get up early to catch four different trains. We were meant to have a long wait at Port Bou for our last train, but there was one about to leave for Barcelona and since it didn’t require a reservation we hopped on it and arrived in Barcelona an hour and a half earlier than we’d expected. Nice surprise. This was a very good Spanish train too, despite only being second class.

Found our Apartment suite. Absolutely stunning with gorgeous big black tiles throughout and nice furniture. Was great to have a kitchen again. Walked over to a close supermarket and had great fun picking out stuff we could cook. Very tired, so didn’t go out. Just had a nice night in cooking dinner, watching movies and drinking sparkling wine.