Day 1: London, And Then...

We left for Barcelona at 5.15 in the morning. I'd originally booked to go to ALONE, on my first international holiday BY MYSELF, but.... the guidebook kept going on and on about how common theft is in Barcelona. I started to think it might be better to have a big muscly man by my side. In the end it was a good thing Lauchlin came, because we ate dinner exclusively by candlelight. Without him it would have been a waste of perfectly good romantic atmosphere.