Spain/Portugal & Gibraltar Trip 2024 - Day 2 - Eurostars Rey Fernando hotel at Zaragoza

Our hotel room dont look alike with my siblings. My room is straight two single beds with attached toilet, sofa area and a little kitchen with sink and microwave. And no they dont have kettle, we had little hot water flask and get the restaurant where we had dinner, to fill our flask with hot water.  A travel kettle is useful, one of my siblings brought along a travel kettle.

Two single beds

Sofa area

Dining area

Bathroom

While my sister's room comes with attached living room, which is bigger

Hers has two single beds in a bedroom and the living room is in the other room.

Little kitchen area with sink, induction cooker and microwave

And a huge fridge

Need Adaptor for european switch, the hotel dont have a USB port so as many other hotels we stayed, so need remember bring a charger with USB port.

This hotel dont have a supermarket nearby.

Spain, Portugal & Gibraltar - Day 2 - Sagrada Familia Church

After lunch, our first sightseeing was of course the famous Sagrada Familia Church - unfinished Roman Catholic Church in Barcelona.

The Church was the works of Antoni Gaudi and remained unfinished and still in construction. Took more than 140 years and still building.

We entered into the church and it was so beautiful and with lots of natural lighting.

Very beautiful indeed, lights from the sun. Must visit place.

 

Spain, Portugal & Gibraltar Trip 2024 - Day 2 - Spanish 3 course lunch

After landing in Barcelona, Spain, we were whisked straightaway for a 3 course spanish lunch.

For starters, we had some stacks of tomato and eggplant, top on top of each other.

For the main course, we had deep fried sea bass with potato. It was quite big chunk, we did not finished all as we were still very full from the airline food. We aplogised to the restaurant as they felt     weird the whole group of tourist did not finished their food hahaha.

Dessert was pumpkin pudding I think. Was served cold.

 

Spain, Portugal & Gilbraltar Trip 2024 - Day 1 & Day 2 - Singapore Airlines from Singapore to Barcelona via Milan

Finally, the day is here, we got ready for our trip to Spain, Portugal and Gilbraltar for two weeks. Very stressful before our trip and sad news that Spain had a bad flood in Valencia two weeks before we supposed to fly and one week before we supposed to depart, Barcelona Airport was flooded. 

We were unsure if we could go ahead with our trip, luckily we bought travel insurance incase of any cancellation. We decided to go ahead with our trip after assurance from our travel agent although there were some fellow travellers decided to cancel their trip.

We were so lucky that during our two weeks there, there were not a single drop of rain but the weather in Spain and Portgual were very harsh for us from Singapore. Not used to their weather, many of fellow travellers fall sick. My sister and me fall sick after our return trip.

Checking in at Changi Airport for our long flight to Barcelona, Spain transit in Milan. It was about 13 hours flight from Singapore to Milan and transit in Milan for about one and half hour and the airport security came to check our passport and make sure the bags above us belongs to us and then the cleaners came to clean the plane while we were still in the plane, we were not allowed to leave the plane.

After one and half hour, we continue our journey to Barcelona for about another two hours. For this sector, lesser passengers and more empty seats, we went to sit in empty seats as our group of six can sit more comfortable.

The space infront is spacious but I am a short person, 1.56 m haha

The first meal was dinner, I believed I choose chicken and potato

My hubby choose noodles 

After meal, I just listened to some music and doze in and out. I am surprised I could take the long flight without any problems, no watching movies in the first 6 or 7 hours but it was after midnight Singapore time. Mid flight woke up and went to the toilet and raid the pantry hahaha.

The Singapore Airlines Crew were so friendly and taught me how to take nice photo of the snacks. Asking me to take some snacks along. As I was travelling in a group of 6, I asked if I could collect on behalf of them, one of them asked to take more snacks, even went to the cabinet and get more snacks for me hahaha. So nice of him. If I am not mistaken, his name is Ezwan (hope spelling correct), I did send a feedback compliment him. 

Frankly speaking, I always thought Singapore Airlines staff treat foreigners better than fellow singaporean passengers hahaha but this trip change my mind. He was nice and chat not only with me but other passengers too. He even offered to help my brother in law change his sim card although my brother in law managed to do it himself.

Now I am in better position to boast about Singapore Airlines Staff after this trip. It was nice to have this type of encounters and the snacks really help destress the long flight trip. After a long flight I landed in Spain without jet lag and continue my sightseeing hahahaha.

Thank You Ezwan of Singapore Airlines.

Oh the cranberries were so nice but there only 6 packets left and I took them all for my group hahaha.

The second meal was breakfast, hubby got omelette and I got mee hoon with chicken