Day 60 - Tuesday 2 July - Avignon to Barcelona

Tuesday 2 July

We packed up slowly, and took advantage of being home in the morning to call Tomoki and Taiki, whom we have not spoken to in all these weeks. Then we went to the station and waited for about an hour.
Our first train took us to Nimes, then a TGV to Barcelona, reaching 292kph. Some marshy ground, and lakes between the sea and the farming land.  It looked more like how I'd imagined Spain - drier and less fertile land, houses painted white, lots with swimming pools.

We arrived about 16:45, got a taxi to our commercially run bnb and were shown around by a very friendly employee. This one is big, a whole 2bed apartment, with a washing machine on the balcony and a good super market opposite.  However it is very dark, the windows only opening onto more walls in chimney-type spaces.