Day 6 Girona

Cathedral Steps

Not being able to make up our minds where to go today we decided to stay in Girona. It was rather late when we left the hotel, walked down the hill, stopped in a cafe had coffee with a croissant, and got ready to play tourist. However, the only major tourista sites were the Catedral de Girona and the wall around the city. A walk through the town takes you over to the Cathedral. It's a tough 90 steps up to the front door (I don't think they call it the front door, but I don't know what). I have no idea how some people make it to church because it was hard for us. We took the audio tour which took about an hour. It's a pretty impressive church, but the audio tour didn't work very well - you'd press a number and something entirely different would start playing. I would still recommend it if anyone's interested enough to come to Girona. Getting from the cathedral to the wall was again an all uphill walk. There are many walled cities in Europe and this one has been well maintained and exceptional. Took a couple of pictures and decided it was time for lunch. We settled on a little outdoor cafe and had sangria and something else. Well satisfied, we walked BACK up the mountain to the hotel and waited for dinner.

Walked back down the hill around 7:30 and went over to the other end of town and found a little local outdoor cafe. I had a couple of beers, Sylvia had two wines, they gave us olives and chips and the total bill was six dollars...pretty good deal. We weren't very hungry and couldn't decide where we wanted to eat, so we walked back thought town intending to go back to the hotel when hidden away in an alley saw an Irish pub. All of a sudden I got thirsty again and thought it might be a good idea to go in for a Guinness. I was surprised to see a group of people getting together to play Irish music. They turned out to be pretty good so we stayed and had sandwiches and listened for awhile. It was a harder than usual walk back up the mountain. Tomorrow we'll be driving over to the Mediterranean coast to look around and have a little lunch. It should be a lively kind of day.

A little Irish Pub