Oh Barthelona! Definitely my favorite city thus far.
After a wonderful afternoon of strolling and haircuttery, we piled into some taxis to take us to the airport for Madrid. I had a ticket mishap... and paid for it dearly... not a fun event. But the plane ride was quick and we landed in Barcelona about an hour later.
After getting turned around in trying to find our hostel, we finally made it and got settled in (with the help of some of the friendliest, kindest hostel staff EVER), and promptly went out to "Nasty Mondays" at club Apolo. Twas a good time.
The next day, despite being out until approximately 3am, Christina and I awoke at 9am and found a nice little cafe to have breakfast. We waited for our friends to wake up, then around noon all 6 of us headed out to explore. We walked down the Arc de Triumph walkway (name??) in the beautiful sunlight and gorgeous day, then made our way down the the beach and soaked up the sand and salt for an hour before making our way back up to some little shops. We also saw a movie being filmed in a small alley, that was really cool. Found some gifts in an adorable shop. Then we headed back to the hostel to commence dinner making! Pasta with chicken and broccoli and wine, with strawberries dipped in melted chocoalte for dessert! Inexpensive and a really fun and different dinner. Some people had found a small jazz bar that they wanted to go to that night, mainly to contrast the intense club we were at the night before. We headed downstairs to the cozy bar the hostel had and enjoyed 2 cocktails for 7 euro before grabbing some taxis to the bar. Two castle kids (Pat being one of them!) got to play onstage with members of the band, which was awesome and so cool! Didn't go to bed until about 5am. I love Barcelona time tables :)
Wednesday was our last day in Barcelona. Christina and I woke up early for another glorious day, and we met Patrick and Z in town. Pat, Z and I got brunch, then headed to La Sagrada Familia. Wow. It was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful, both inside and out. It's incredible to think of how it was designed, every detail carefully thought out with precision. I will be back there someday when it's finished. Wow.
Then we took the metro to Gaudi's Parc Guell which was also absolutely beautiful! We walked around the entire park, going up into the mountains... the view of the entire city of Barcelona is something I'll never forget. After 3 or 4 hours there, we went back to our hostel and made dinner again :) Rice, chicken and cashews... with wine. There was talk of going out again, I woud up going to a few bars before winding up at Club Apolo again. Crashed back at the hostel for 45 minutes (woken up by some annoying Irish students) before waking up for real at 6am to catch our flight to Rome.
Barcelona was wonderful and I want to go back!
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