This morning we set off for our short day down to Barcelona with a bit of slop left over from yesterdays weather. It was simply a case of slipping along the shore line and on the approach to the harbour we had a good view of the world famous Sagrada Familia.

There was a fair amount of commercial traffic around with some seriously large cruise ships in port…….like this one!

Now if I had to say we had a little frisson of excitement at entering the harbour, I would be lying, it was a fantastic sensation/experience.

Before going into Port Vell Marina I circled the boat around at the statue of Christopher Columbus while Sara took the photographs including one of this bridge into the private marinas, and on which we stood seven years ago and said “ ….one day we will sail a boat in here”……..and today was that day – tremendous – it will be a long time before we forget the feelings we experienced at this moment. My endorphins were really charging about my bloodstream.

We then went over to refuel and called the marina office who confirmed they had received our request from yesterday and had a 10m berth available for us on pontoon B, which is about as close as you can get to the city centre… a nice wee bonus!!