We woke early this morning in our hotel room at Gatwick Airport.  Rather than have breakfast we decided that we would use the Hospitality Lounge at the Terminal.  After parking the car at the Long Stay Car Park we took the bus to the North Terminal and after some shopping for Mary we went through Security (Sara setting off the alarm as usual!) and then to the Hospitality Lounge where we based ourselves until the flight was called.  Thom bought himself a set of expensive headphones which he has had his eye on for some time. Out flight was called on time (11.40 am) and we took off at around 11.50 a.m. with a short journey time of only one and a half hours. By 2.30 p.m. (Spanish time) we were in the Barcelona Airport Terminal.  Things seemed to go very smoothly until we tried to buy travel cards for the week.  Having told we could buy them at "any station" we trundled ourselves and our luggage to the airport railway station where we were told that we can only buy travel passes from the Tourist Information booth back in the Terminal.  I left Sara and the kids and trundled back to be confronted by a long queue.  Eventually I was served to be told that I could buy the tickets "at any station in the city" but not the station at the airport.  Having bought four travel cards for five days we caught the train to a station about a quarter of a mile away from our hotel and walked the remaining distance.  Another setback - on arriving at the hotel they only had a record of us booking one room not two!  Eventually the muddle was sorted out and we were given two adjacent rooms on the sixth floor - the larger of which having a view of the Sagrada Familia (Gaudi's gaudy basilica).  We went for a typical Barcelona meal tonight - some tapas for me, salmon for Sara and burgers for the children!  We had our first taste of tomatoes and garlic bread.  Back to the hotel for a good night's rest