Day 2 Thursday, February 28, 2013

We slept in today and it was 9am before we were up and ready to go out. Unfortunately the weather is not cooperating and it is rainy and in the low 40's! We were out anyway trying the coffee and croissants and treking around town. We scoped out the Library at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili that I will be visiting tomorrow. Today we walked there, but since it is supposed to rain again tomorrow, I will take the city bus to get there. This will be the first Library for my research project. The others are in Barcelona and I will not visit them until April.

Our hotel is located on the main circle in the city (population more than 134,000) We have our choice of streets to follow off the circle and have gone up and down the Ramblas street in the past two days. There are many fountains and statues along this street and I will post some of our pictures soon. I have been using my Spanish quite a bit. Lola is picking up some words and has no trouble communicating. We are getting used to the money and both have a pocket full of Euros and assorted change. Everyone has been very nice to us and we are enjoying the stay.

We hope to see some of the Roman ruins in Tarragona tomorrow or for sure on Saturday before we travel back to Barcelona. Rain is keeping us in tonight so Lola is reading her book and I am prepping for my Library visit tomorrow. I hope we have something more exciting to share tomorrow.