barcelona.to.nice

So yesterday we decided to go to avignon straight from madrid and skip barcelona. (I know...but there are other places we want to see!) So we got up at 6am to catch the 7:08 train to barcelona which was to arrive at 12:46. Then we'd take the 1:20 train to avignon. Well..it didn't go as planned. We got there at 6:45, but found that our train info was not up to date, so the next train was leaving at 7:30 and arriving at 1:13. A little tight. So we took it anyway, and it arrived late to barcelona- at 1:36. We ended up cancelling our hotel reservation, and catching a night train to nice. So we had 5ish hours to spend in barcelona, and we were glad we did. We went to the gothic quarter for lunch and saw the sights; walked up la rambla (?) and saw one of gaudi's buildings; and still had time to walk all the way to la sangrila familia (that one I know I spelt wrong). It was a great run through visit. We're in nice now, and are going to check out some stuff here. Tomorrow I'm taking a train to chamonix to take a cable car over mont blanc. *tm* is going to stay here in provence since she's more excited about this area. We'll meet up on saturday somewhere. (Haven't figure that out yet!) Right now I have to go find a hotel in chamonix that's less than $200/night!