Second day in Girona.

Jesus nothing but freaking troubles with these blog entries. Now i see they're getting posted out of order. The correct order is:

Day before leaving
First day in Barcelona
La Ramblas
Girona
Second day in Girona


Nice sleep, apt was fairly quiet. A few more chores to do and then we're heading out the next day.

First we had to fix our phone. We had bought a new sim card in Barc but when the phone reboots it asks for the sim password, which we didn't have. When we got the phone the woman never gave us the pas info, she just had us type it in. So we found a Movistar office (our local carrier) and with some garbled communication we got it fixed for 6 Euros. Could have been worse.

Speaking of language problems we're really hurting. That is, there's such a mix of languages here that we're totally thrashing when we try to speak. There's regular Spanish, then barcalonian Spanish whereby they use "th" instead of "c"' ie grathias. Then there's Catalan and it's often used. Plus there a lot of French tourists so you hear that and the locals sometimes use it with us. And there's some Italians around and you hear that. So when it comes time to speak you never know what's going to come out of our mouths. It's often French, since we sort of speak French it feels natural to jump to that when everyone is speaking something we don't quite understand. Often we'll produce one whole sentence out of a mix of English, Spanish and French; with maybe a grazie thrown in at the end. The epitome of our ineptness ws when this woman says "ola" to April and she replied with "Voila!" hahaha.

Ok back to Girona, toured the Jewish museum, they started getting shafted here around 1200. Forced to convert to Christianity or get burned. Eventually they all got forced out of Girona.

Back to the current world: we were looking for some oils for our skin which dries out when riding. We checked out the pharmacies, which are located every 100 yards or so. Nothing natural. Then we found this great natural oil store, we got all excited, started rubbing the testers all over, I slathered a nice rose oil on my legs, then we happened to check the price, $50-$70 Euros for a tiny bottle!! We made some reference about not wanting to carry the glass bottle and snuck out of the shop. Then I spied some oils in one of the sex shops. In we go past the dildos and the elderly gentleman shopping for some new toys, and April says, "What are those for"?! Haha. They had a good selection of oils, but not enough natural ingredients. Then we tried a hippie store and sure enough some natural oils from India. Scored a nice plastic bottle for $4 euros. Skills.

For dinner we went to the restaurant Sam Starr had recommended, Vintages. Sam works for a bike tour company out of Girona in the summer. Sure enough it was fantastic, best meal of the trip so far. Had a great plate of Burata, which kind of like fresh mozzarella but better. Also has a shrimp plate and boneless rabbit dish.

Off to bed and ready to ride tomorrow.

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