Barcelona

It was quite the journey getting to Barcelona. We found great tickets that were only about 75 dollars round trip. However we landed in Girona around midnight which is about and hour north of Barcelona. We really had no plans for a hotel that night. We ended up spending the night at the Girona bus station until about six in the morning when the train came. In between the times of setting high scores in tetris on my phone I learned some things while sitting the night outside. First of all, this may sound weird but you start to feel like a wild animal (besides the tetris). When you walk past somebody in the street you treat it almost unhumanly, you start judging their body language, you try and look dominant, and all your senses are going. Mom don't freak out it really wasn't that bad a place. Secondly I was once again reaffirmed that my life is pretty easy, there were a few people who walked into the bus station at about 4 am looking like they had just got off work and had about a half hour bus ride home. Thirdly, I don't want to be homeless.

Anyways we ended up catching the train at about 6:11 in the morning and took it into Barcelona. Needless to say I was pretty much unconscious the whole way there. We ended up walking around and looked over the city from a hill that we had walked up. Then we hunted down our hostel and checked in. We resisted the temptation to sleep but ultimately took an hour nap. We then spent the rest of the day sight seeing and going to the beach. That was quite the long blur of two days.

Our hostel was in the lower gothic which was a perfect location to the beach and all the sight seeing. It was definitely the old part of Barcelona, all small side streets and cobblestone streets that were nearly impossible to navigate where you were. They had lots of cool little shops, restaurants, and bars. All usually small and locally owned. Very cool stuff.

The days that proceeded that were full of usually sight seeing, then a late afternoon visit to the beach, proceeded by a nap, then out for the night. Inserted in the sight seeing rituals were many Gaudi works and museums.

Some of the places I can remember seeing were Gaudi's church, La Boqueria (Best market ever), the bull fighting ring, Casa Mila (Gaudi Building), MontJuic (Olympic Park), Parc Guell (Gaudi Park), Barcelona History Museum, Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona Art Museum, the Barcelona Pavilion, the '92 Olympic Stadium, the whole beach front, and lots more.

Overall Barcelona is a very cool city. It was a great experience and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again, awesome 6 days.