Days 1-2 (August 21-22, 2025): A Rough Start! Sitges > Montserrat > Manresa
After the disappointment of our flight cancellation on Wednesday evening, our WestJet “relief flight” did takeoff on time on Thursday evening, at the same scheduled time. It was a packed flight and a fairly smooth one over the Atlantic. We were served a nice chicken dijon tray just after midnight (Halifax time) and, after a completely sleepless night for both of us, we landed in Barcelona, just ahead of schedule, at 9:30 AM on Friday morning. When we got to our car rental company, they wouldn’t rent me the car because I didn’t have an international drivers license. I have driven cars all over the world, even in Africa, and I’ve only been asked for an International drivers license once. I do have a valid one, which I got from CAA, but I just didn’t bring it with me, because I had no idea that Spain, as an EU member, would require it. $100 later, I was able to get one online after some doing and finally get the car rental resolved. It was 11:40 AM when we set out from Barcelona. We ...