Vanessa & Jaime's pad

I had to vacate Auob's cute flat on Saturday morning. For the past week, I am endlessly at mt favorite internet cafe-I even bought a 'Great America' type season pass. The guys here know me by name and I think are almost sick of me 'living' here. This is my only way to communicate with potential roommates or finds rooms period. After, climbing a weeks worth of Mt. Everest stairs, I was still at square one in securing a long term 'habitacion'. Auob, the darling that he is, saw my distress and phoned friends of his.

Within one hour I am lugging, yet again, my 300 lbs of luggage to Vanessa & Jaime's rental flat.

The taxi driver drops me off at the cafe next to their house, as I am interuppting Vanessa from park time with her boys. She arrives, and has the aura of an angel. She's Irish, with a big smile, and the most darling young boys in tow-Liam & Mallaky (sp?).

Insisting, I relax-she escorts me into the flat, which is a slice of heaven-wish I could stay forever. Settling in , I take a long-much needed shower, and unload some packed items. Then, what I thought was the house phone rings and rings-I have no idea what to do-then realize it's the doorbell. I run to the balcony and there is Auob on the street-making sure I arrived safely and am settled. I invite him up, me in my bath towel, with one around my head-he seems embarrassed to have disturbed me. Auob, I can't thank you enough-I tell him. We look at my map together, and chat a bit. Vanessa knocks at the door-she & Jaime live next door in the adjacent flat. Sweetly, she extends an invitation to join them for lunch. Unfortnately, I told her, the internet cafe calls my name, as I only have 3 days in this flat I must continue my search...

check out Vanessa'a blog:

http://fromdayone.blogspot.com

see also pics of their darling family from there...too cute!

If any of you come to BCN..do not stay in a hotel-these two flats I have stayed in are the way to go!!

The saga continues...