Certainly don't want to thread creep too much, but as a Catalan speaker, I'm going to have to dive in. Girona is the correct spelling in Catalan (pronounced zheerohna) whilst the Castillians would call it Gerona (herr-ohna). Either way it's quite a distance from Barcelona itself, which is fine if you're staying for a couple of days, but if it's a brief visit then it's not at all convenient - about a 15 minute bus ride to the local train station, then a 50 minute train. It does serve the Costa Brava (which means the wild rather than the brave coast) which is very pretty, though quite expensive. BCN is a much needed destination from EMA having gone from 2 daily flights to nothing in 2004, so it's good to see the route back, and easyJet should do well.
For a while FR and U2 competed quite happily on the Rome route with flights at polar ends of the day, but as soon as FR's flights moved to the morning with an EMA based aircraft, it seemed that two flights in the space of two hours wouldn't work.