Nature is powerful

Wow, this is the first year in all my 10 years as a tourguide where the power of nature gets to affect travellers in a big way here in Barcelona.

The first time was the storm snow I reported last month. It started during a tour with the Stein, and then I got a group cancelling their FC Barcelona Tour and their Helicopter rides. Too bad!

Now, it's the Iceland vulcano ash cloud. And funnily, it has affected me in several different ways:

--- Yesterday I had a tour with the Sullivan, who didn't know if their flight would be finally departing this morning. Hopefully it did!

--- Then I got a call from Seldon Young, for whom I organized a whole 10-day program for his YPO group in 2007, who after this became a good friend and has recomended me to so many people since. He was travelling in Europe and got stuck here with some other friends, and he asked me to show them the city. We had a wonderful 6h tour today.

--- Tomorrow I'm having the Bennett for another 6h tour. Looks like they finally managed to fly from Philadelphia. Great! As we have a beautiful program with them tomorrow including all their favorites, some contemporary architecture, and some cheese and tapas!

--- Finally I have another group, bussiness people, who couldn't make it and will be post-poning their trip.

I'm glad no big harm has been done and things are working well. So far, the Barcelona airport is reopened and they are working to get things back to normal!