Our trip to Spain lasted about eleven hours. It took about seven and a half hours to get to Amsterdam, where we had a 2 hour layover at 6 am  We slept little on the plane, but then it was only about 11:00 pm (Minnesota time) when we arrived there. We went through customs  and I was again patted down even though I removed everything from my pockets, etc. The scanner flagged three different areas including one by my right knee, so I am not sure what it was showing.

It was two hours from Amsterdam to Barcelona. We caught a bus at the airport that took us to Tarragona. We arrived here about 2 pm and found our hotel directly over the bus station. How convenient! We checked in and then walked around Tarragona until about 4:30 when we finally gave in and took a nap. We did not sleep very long and explored the hotel and the area a little more before coming in for the night. The hotel has a roof top pool and seating area that we intend to visit tomorrow evening. It overlooks the very busy main circle in Tarragona.

The hotel is nice and has been recently renovated. We discovered that we needed to insert the room key card to get the electricity on in the room. We are looking forward to exploring Tarragona tomorrow!