Hey everyone, we’re here! After a long flight and routing that took us first to Frankfurt and then to Barcelona we finally arrived with very little sleep and things to do. The nice thing about this route is we got to fly over the Alps and the clouds weren’t covering them. We will definitely be back to explore those mountains and valleys sometime in the future.
Even though we were only changing planes in Frankfurt the Germans stamped our passport. Oddly enough, when we got to Barcelona we claimed our bags and went out the “nothing to declare” customs line. Guess what, no customs at all! Not even a stamp on the passport! Nada! Nobody even looked at us!
The Renaissance Hotel is right in the middle of things and very nice. Even though we wanted to sleep we went out and had tapas across the street from Gaudi’s Casa Batllo. Next was a show at the Palau de la Musica Catalana. Now we are exhausted, sleep deprived and ready to hit the sack.
Maybe mañana I’ll find out what the deal was with customs. Too tired now to care about it.
woolyandraeski 
Glad you are there safely! Have fun and we look forward to your postings.
Bienvenido a España!
Once you enter the EU, as you did in Germany, you are “checked in” and cleared through customs. YAt BCN, the “aduana” is a small police room next to the automatic doors when you exit the baggage area. They only stop people if look suspicious or if the police are in a bad mood and want to give someone a hard time. You passed the test!