COTTON CLUB TO VOYAGER TO EUROSTARS

Note the title of this posting. I'll explain why. Final view of the Cotton Club....our spiral staircase.

A few more street scenes as we drove to the Barcelona Port.

Cities don't seem to have bus tours anymore. You now only see these jump-on-off buses.

This is the W Hotel we also use.

As we approached Terminal B, where the Regent Seven Seas Voyager was supposed to be docked, we saw instead the Oceania Vista.

Turned out that our ship had technical problems and was delayed to another port for fixing. So we had to be bussed to an overnight hotel.

After a ride of 45 minutes to Sitges, we see the Eurostars Hotel above a golf course.

Excellent view from our room. Nice and new hotel.

Lunch was extraordinary. Steak with beer, red wine from this region and sides.

A neighboring table ordered fish, so had to take this photo.

We finished lunch at 2:30PM, so thought we'd just have salad for dinner in the bar. Just about the worst Caesar Salad I've ever had.

Walked 2188 steps today,

The following morning, breakfast in an expansive restaurant.

We now find out that we don't leave the hotel until 4:30 in the afternoon. But, apparently the Voyager is fine and we will begin our cruise to Rome later tonight.

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