The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on Barcelona Plain

Woken up at 06.43 by a spectacular thunder and lightning storm with torrential rain. Not seen rain like it since I was last in Florida. Scheduled to travel to Nimes today via Lloret de Mar to see the Irish lads play football, get the feeling the match may struggle to be on and as we have 4 hours in front of us in normal conditions, we may press on as heavy rain scheduled all day. Forecast not great for next couple of days so blogs may get bigger and more frequent.
Anyway Thursday was a great day in Barcelona with temperature 24 degrees and Barcelona really coming to life. Spent the morning in Tibidabo which gave us spectacular views of Barcelona, as it is high in the hills overlooking Barcelona. Had a nice funfair and the Ks spent time on a few of he rides. In particular their trip to the Ferris wheel turned into a bit of a marathon, with a changeover of staff leading to 23 minutes on the wheel, with Karla's face turning greener by the minute. We then went into Barcelona to meet Niall, Jack and the other 32 Irish party who were fed and watered by Moira and her crew at Flaherty's. In the evening we went to a traditional Catalan restaurant with Derek and his wife Cassie. Dinner was wonderful and it was good to catch up with Derek again.
On Friday weather was cloudy, but fairly dry. We visited a Spanish village park that has 107 different Spanish style buildings representing the various styles across the country. Each building had a different craft or restaurant and was worth the visit. After a trip to the beach, where I was able to show off my climbing skills on the monkey bars, we headed for an early dinner with the highlight being a starter of Iberian ham, which cost more than the rest of the meal added together but was well worth it.
So we are all well and looking forward to resuming the rural part of the road trip, having had our 4 day city break in the beautiful city of Barcelona.
Happy Easter to all.
R, K & K