Catalunya, is it part of Spain or not?

I love to travel!  It's no surprise that I have worked in the travel industry for 31 years.  After being unemployed for close to 10 months I now have a job working for MLT Vacations (one of my former clients) owned by Delta Airlines.  Like I said I love to travel and I love my wife so much that I even agreed to arrange this trip during the Baseball playoffs.  

We flew to Newark, a pretty easy  5+ hour flight.  When we arrived, we were hungry. We found a restaurant that had a TV's. I asked them to put on the SF Giants game.  Zito was pitching, Pagan had lead off the game with a HR. It was 5 to 2 when I had to board the flight to Barcelona (Giants won 8 -3 and tied the NLDS at 2 games each).  More about the Giants and playoffs at the end.

From Newark our flight was non-stop to Barcelona, the flight was only 6 1/2 hours, it went by pretty quickly.  Unfortunately the sleeping pill I took did not have he impact I had hoped for.....so upon arrive both Beth and I were extremely tired. It was difficult to make decisions at the car rental....do I keep the  small car I rented or upgrade to a larger car (Peugeot)....I upgraded....do I add additional insurance in case someone is injured........I added it the additional insurance.....all just part of the travel experience!  You know you are exhausted when you get in the car and you can't figure out how to put the manual drive into reverse.......so we are on our way...how do we go?  I do love to drive all over the world, however not knowing where you are going can get a bit stressful, especially when you are tired and hungry.....as it turns out the directions I printed worked well and we had an uneventful drive to our Hotel El Far in town of Llfafranc, in the municipally of Palafrugell in the province of Girona in Catalunya, Spain (say that 10 times).  The hotel only has 9 rooms, and they are not very fancy, but as the saying goes...location, location, location.  We are 500 feet above the ocean with amazing views.

 Here are a few photos from our balcony

After checking in we took a nice 2+ hour nap, then went down to Llafranc to walk around the beach and harbor.

Our dinner was included with our "Romance Package" so we had  

OK now back to my SF Giants....below is a quote from Hunter Pence prior to game 4 that Ryan Vogelsong pitched...talk about intense, emotional, passion.....one of the many reasons why I love baseball.

“get in here, everyone get in here..look into each other eyes..now! look into each others eyes, I want one more day with you, it’s the most fun, the best team I have ever been on … and no matter what happens we must not give in, we owe it to each other, play for each other, I need one more day with you guys, I need to see what Theriot will wear tomorrow, I want to play defense behind Vogelsong because he’s never been to the playoffs..play for each other not yourself, win each moment, win each inning, it’s all we have left.”

So before going to bed tonight I checked my sports site and am proud to saw that 2012 is a recording breaking year for the Giants.  They, once again, did something NEVER done before.....in a short 5 game series they are the first team EVER to lose the first 2 games at home and then sweep the next 3 games on the road to WIN the series.....awesome....GO Giants.....I want to go to World Series games when I get home.