Saturday, February 15, 2025

Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar Trip 2024 - Day 13 and Day 14 - Bye Bye Spain - Singapore Airlines - Barcelona to Singapore transit in Milan.

Day 13, early morning 6 am check out of hotel to head to the airport for our journey back home to Singapore. As it was still early, the hotel breakfast restaurant was not open, we were given breakfast in a bag, consist of one bottle of mineral water, a bottle of orange juice , sandwich and apple. Left our mineral water in the hotel haha, could not bring the water into immigration at the airport.
Inside Barcelona airport were shops before going to the immigration for security checks.




After immigration check of passports, we went for last minute shopping at the duty free shops.

At the boarding  gate were vending machines, where we could purchase drinks and sandwiches and snacks.

Free filling of water into our water bottle at the drinking station near the boarding gate.

First flight was Barcelona to Milan about 2 hours then from Milan to Singapore about 13 hours, stop over in Milan for one and half hour for cleaning and security check.



It was quite spacious for me in the Singapore Airlines plane, I am not a very tall person (1.56 m)
Cold sandwich meal for the flight from Barcelona to Milan.

For the second flight, we had two meals, the first meal was rice with sambal fish and vegetables

Chicken with potatoes
The second meal was seafood mee hoon
And Omelette, meat balls with pasta

That's the end of my Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar Trip Story. A very tired trip indeed. Stay tune for my next trip next month to South Korea for Cherry Blossom.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar Trip 2024 - Day 12 - Las Ramblas and Boqueria Market Barcelona

After the visit to Montserrat, we went to Las Ramblas for lunch and shopping.
Found a very nice restaurant called The Toast Maker. The food were very delicious and well presented. Service is very good too.







After a hearty lunch, we walked over to Boqueria Market, there were many tourists and crowded. We need to be very careful of pickpockets.
There were many restaurants facing the market too.
































The market was a delight with many different stalls selling cooked food, fruits and seafood too. Saw some sea urchin that comes in many colours. I thought sea urchin were black or brown colours, didnt know they come in purple, white too.





After visiting the market, we proceeded to visit other shops and supermarket along Las Ramblas. We had almost half a day there.



A very tired afternoon, went to have some ice cream at KFC and using the toilets too. We just need to key in the password found in the receipt to enter the toilet. 

We were too full to have early dinner, so ended up purchase some cup noodles for our last night in Barcelona, hahaha.
Dinner for 6 of us, my sisters, brothers in law, my hubby and myself. Our last night in Spain and 1st time taking cup noodles on this trip hahaha and we were so tired and some of us are falling sick already. I fall sick 2 days after arriving Singapore, no is not covid but guess was cause too tired and too cold. (And yes, I got my flu vaccination before going to Spain) 5 of us fall sick during the last 2 days in Spain and some fall sick after return to Singapore except my hubby did not fall sick.