Barcelona with kid - the very first time

I adore Barcelona, i lived there in 2000 i made friends i had to make decisions alone so that's the place i call home where i've found out who i am and so on.
I was obvious that i married there and i visit my city every year. If i am fortunated - twice a year.
The only difficulty is to find a place that's cheap and that isn't placed at the end of the world.
Last year we promised to each other that next time we should take my son with us. So we started to organized everything in March. We watched short videos or photos that were taken at aiports. We explained thousand times how the gates and the security gates work, the secuguards may ask us to open bags or may separate us because of so many potential reasons (some of them explained as well). Thank God for youtube everything seemed so easy, and few weeks before the exact date of the flight my son was the one who explained to the "unknowing" ones how everything works at aiports.
We took time to explain how we should get to the airport (of Timisoara) as well: car - frontier- car ("you can sleep as well") - airport - take off - flying ("you can play or watch cartoons or you can sleep if you want to")- arriving- train- metro- apartman.
By the way toys and other stuff we took for HIM: a matchbox, his pillow and his blanket, 3 shovels for building sandcastles, crayons, exercisebooks (Bob the builder and Pingu) and a booklet to draw as well and a notebook with cartoons (like Dora the explorer, La Linea and Pampalini).
Uncountable sticking plaster (tiritas), painkiller antifebrile and a homeothing called Cocculus for illness caused by traveling or flying.

We made an exact plan which day were to go and what to do and we discussed the topics all over and over again to make my son feel confortable and familiar in these new situations weeks before they had happened.

The only thing we didn't thought of - it was so obvious for us - that we had to sleep in an apartman that was IN Barcelona (my son was crying at the first sight 'i WANT to sleep at the home that is at OUR street').
And again thank God for the notebook - as he started to watch his favourite cartoons and found his blanket everything was OK.

He liked to travel with metros (we had to change line min. twice to get to the seaside or to the Catalunya Square).

The first day it was raining so we went to the Aquarium of Barcelona - it took us prox. 5 hours to see everything...

Than we went back to our apartman (very cheap, 26 euros/night/person, incl. taxes and vat., it had a bathroom with toilet and shower, and a kitchenette as well and it was very close to the Sagrada Familia). After a nap we returned to the seaside and my son met the sea (love at first sight).

The second day we went to our favourite toyshop to buy a train (or two) because my son is a fan of them. We had a coffee and some fruit coctail to drink than we went to the seaside - first time to try to go INTO the sea :)

Nice day nice weather nice city nice family nice seaside so everything was PERFECT.
No crying, no homesick.

Third day - Barcelona ZOO with kind of biology classes at the dolphins and the seals. Peacocks everywhere - sounds like horns.

Flying back - We took of at 9 pm. so we arrived late. My husbands' idea was to buy a wizz airplane (1:2000), to make my son awake and it worked! A bit sleepy sniveling but after 15 minutes we were in the car to get to the frontier.
We arrived home at 3 pm. My son tells great stories about the short trip (sea, zoo, trams, trains, flight)  to anyone but he suggested us to stay next time at home - it was too bad to sleep in a foreign bad....

If you would like to try too click on http://lokoszt.blog.hu - a lot of information about tickets, flights, suttle services and so on in Hungarian.