I attempted to write this blog yesterday but cleverly managed to lose it, I didn't really think I was going to give it another go but since I'm sat in the sun, dangling my feet in the pool and listening to Kasiuss, I reckon I'm in a good enough mood to try again!
Em&I kicked offf the weekend with a very romantic evening.. watching the sunset by the Temple de Debod together. We'd all gone down on Thursday morning after being out to watch the sunrise.. but it turns out that the sun just rises behind some buildings, so it's not quite so impressive.. my bad! Anyway, so we enjoyed the beautiful sunset surrounded by happy couples then set off to Lavapies to find somewhere to have our romantic dinner for two. I absolutely loved this barrio, it was so alive and full of people. One street was lined with restaurants (mainly curry houses etc) and completely full of tables and chairs, we made our pick but getting a table outside was impossible. However, inside the curry was just as cheap and gorgeous... how incredibly spanish of us!
Then it was time to head to the bus, which we were catching at 1am to arrive in Barcelona 8hours later, oh the joy. HOWEVER, we totally had the 'best seats in the house'.. haha.. no seriously. We had the seats behind the stairs therefore meaning we had tons and tons of space, awesome. Still, it didnt really help to put us in the mood to sleep and I'm pretty sure that we annoyed every single person on that coach with our lovely giggling and gossiping.. sorry! Thankfully, the eight hours went crazy fast, and soon we were in Barcelona...
We dropped off our bags at the hostel, went to get breakfast, freshened up in the toilets (pretty sure the waiters thought we were taking drugs or something), and then decided to walked up La Ramblas. This was totally insane.. it made Puerta del Sol in Madrid (the main tourist area) look like a locals favourite hangout! We saw some strange things on this street.. In particular one being that game where there's 3 matchboxes and you have to say which one the ball is under. . it was so clearly a con but people still seemed to be falling for it. We saw two games, the first we saw got broken up by the police before we could work out what was even happening, and it seemed like an Italian girl had lost about €90... idiot. The second game we watched for a while until they all split up, and it seems that there's a gang of about 4-6 people all in on it, and then probably a few people over the street looking out for signs of police to break up the games.. Bizarre, I really don't know how people fall for it, they try to convince you to bet with €50 as well, and only grudgingly take €20. I've since found out since watching it that this game is totally illegal, and you can get fined €3000 for just participating, I'm assuming this is based on gambling in the streets.. not just specifically this game.. I still really cannot understand how people fall for it, or don't realise that handing €50 to a clearly dodgy complete stranger in a street that is renowned for crime.. is never going to be a good idea.
The other excitement on La Ramblas was definitely the little pet stores, absolutely loads and loads of them!! Hamsters, guinea pigs, lizards, rats, ferrets, rabbits, tortoises, chickens, canaries, and a gazillion other bird varieties too! Mental. Although it was kind of sad because on some stalls there was loads of each animal in one cage, more things. However! The cute tiny baby hamsters has totally relit my desperation for a little grey hamster called Aldo... one day.. one day..
Back to the hostel about 130 for a 45minute nap.. we woke up 3 hours later at 430. Shit! Totally stressed at the waste of thre hours I forced Em out of bed and we showered and left to go visit the Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's church that started to be constructed in 1882, and work on it has continued since his death in 1926 (pretty sure he was run over by a tram, gutted).. and at the minute it's expected to be completed in 2026, 100 years since his death, but really chances are it will never be finished. I was both impressed and disappointed at the same time. I think I've got a bad habit of really building things up in my mind so that they could never live up to my expectations.. although I don't really know what I expected with the Sagrada Familia. Some bits were awesome, and really impressive, and it is totally crazy that it is STILL being built.. some bits were just average, and it really was too big to take in as a single structure.
Back at the hostel we finaly bumped into Jeremy! Me and Em cracked open the trust 95c wine and started on making our delicious pasta for dinner. To be honest this was a massive fail on my half, I think all I did was put salt in the water and I added the mushrooms and pasta, sorry Em! We watched a bit of the Champions League Final but to be honest I really wasn't that into it, I couldn't care who won, so we scampered back up to our room to decide what to do that night and polish off some more wine. When we went back to watch the last ten minutes of the game we decided on settling for the bar crawl as we were told loads of people were going on it.. awesome idea!
Not so much, we only had five minutes to get ready. Absolute panic. I don't think I've ever got ready for a night out in five minutes in my life.. I didn't even have time to decide I didn't like my dress and change! Bizarre. Totally bizarre. However, I ended up looking exactly the same as I do when I spend 90 minutes.. so maybe this is a new me? No.
Anyway, it turned out to be an unexpectedly awesome night and definitely a fantastic choice. Despite the first bar being scary and confusing because this was the WRONG pub crawl (where is gary? why isn't it free? where are we going! where are the transvestites? haha...) things soon looked up..apart from my absolute failure at taking pictures, I have 17 and half of them are rubbish. Not impressed. Nevermind.. memories will have to do..! I love love love how we were looking forward to being able to go to bed whenever the hell we wanted, and not having to wait until 6am for the metro to open.... Em&I finally got to sleep at about 730, and for some bizarre reason we decided to share a bed (to be fair Emily was on the top bunk, pure effort!!) & witter excitedly about our nights until we realised if we weren't careful.. we would miss free breakfast!
Temple @ night...
Jack!
Sagrada Familia
Fish..
Ohh.. Aldo ♥
Yum :)!
Fantastic.
Em&I kicked offf the weekend with a very romantic evening.. watching the sunset by the Temple de Debod together. We'd all gone down on Thursday morning after being out to watch the sunrise.. but it turns out that the sun just rises behind some buildings, so it's not quite so impressive.. my bad! Anyway, so we enjoyed the beautiful sunset surrounded by happy couples then set off to Lavapies to find somewhere to have our romantic dinner for two. I absolutely loved this barrio, it was so alive and full of people. One street was lined with restaurants (mainly curry houses etc) and completely full of tables and chairs, we made our pick but getting a table outside was impossible. However, inside the curry was just as cheap and gorgeous... how incredibly spanish of us!
Then it was time to head to the bus, which we were catching at 1am to arrive in Barcelona 8hours later, oh the joy. HOWEVER, we totally had the 'best seats in the house'.. haha.. no seriously. We had the seats behind the stairs therefore meaning we had tons and tons of space, awesome. Still, it didnt really help to put us in the mood to sleep and I'm pretty sure that we annoyed every single person on that coach with our lovely giggling and gossiping.. sorry! Thankfully, the eight hours went crazy fast, and soon we were in Barcelona...
We dropped off our bags at the hostel, went to get breakfast, freshened up in the toilets (pretty sure the waiters thought we were taking drugs or something), and then decided to walked up La Ramblas. This was totally insane.. it made Puerta del Sol in Madrid (the main tourist area) look like a locals favourite hangout! We saw some strange things on this street.. In particular one being that game where there's 3 matchboxes and you have to say which one the ball is under. . it was so clearly a con but people still seemed to be falling for it. We saw two games, the first we saw got broken up by the police before we could work out what was even happening, and it seemed like an Italian girl had lost about €90... idiot. The second game we watched for a while until they all split up, and it seems that there's a gang of about 4-6 people all in on it, and then probably a few people over the street looking out for signs of police to break up the games.. Bizarre, I really don't know how people fall for it, they try to convince you to bet with €50 as well, and only grudgingly take €20. I've since found out since watching it that this game is totally illegal, and you can get fined €3000 for just participating, I'm assuming this is based on gambling in the streets.. not just specifically this game.. I still really cannot understand how people fall for it, or don't realise that handing €50 to a clearly dodgy complete stranger in a street that is renowned for crime.. is never going to be a good idea.
The other excitement on La Ramblas was definitely the little pet stores, absolutely loads and loads of them!! Hamsters, guinea pigs, lizards, rats, ferrets, rabbits, tortoises, chickens, canaries, and a gazillion other bird varieties too! Mental. Although it was kind of sad because on some stalls there was loads of each animal in one cage, more things. However! The cute tiny baby hamsters has totally relit my desperation for a little grey hamster called Aldo... one day.. one day..
Back to the hostel about 130 for a 45minute nap.. we woke up 3 hours later at 430. Shit! Totally stressed at the waste of thre hours I forced Em out of bed and we showered and left to go visit the Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's church that started to be constructed in 1882, and work on it has continued since his death in 1926 (pretty sure he was run over by a tram, gutted).. and at the minute it's expected to be completed in 2026, 100 years since his death, but really chances are it will never be finished. I was both impressed and disappointed at the same time. I think I've got a bad habit of really building things up in my mind so that they could never live up to my expectations.. although I don't really know what I expected with the Sagrada Familia. Some bits were awesome, and really impressive, and it is totally crazy that it is STILL being built.. some bits were just average, and it really was too big to take in as a single structure.
Back at the hostel we finaly bumped into Jeremy! Me and Em cracked open the trust 95c wine and started on making our delicious pasta for dinner. To be honest this was a massive fail on my half, I think all I did was put salt in the water and I added the mushrooms and pasta, sorry Em! We watched a bit of the Champions League Final but to be honest I really wasn't that into it, I couldn't care who won, so we scampered back up to our room to decide what to do that night and polish off some more wine. When we went back to watch the last ten minutes of the game we decided on settling for the bar crawl as we were told loads of people were going on it.. awesome idea!
Not so much, we only had five minutes to get ready. Absolute panic. I don't think I've ever got ready for a night out in five minutes in my life.. I didn't even have time to decide I didn't like my dress and change! Bizarre. Totally bizarre. However, I ended up looking exactly the same as I do when I spend 90 minutes.. so maybe this is a new me? No.
Anyway, it turned out to be an unexpectedly awesome night and definitely a fantastic choice. Despite the first bar being scary and confusing because this was the WRONG pub crawl (where is gary? why isn't it free? where are we going! where are the transvestites? haha...) things soon looked up..apart from my absolute failure at taking pictures, I have 17 and half of them are rubbish. Not impressed. Nevermind.. memories will have to do..! I love love love how we were looking forward to being able to go to bed whenever the hell we wanted, and not having to wait until 6am for the metro to open.... Em&I finally got to sleep at about 730, and for some bizarre reason we decided to share a bed (to be fair Emily was on the top bunk, pure effort!!) & witter excitedly about our nights until we realised if we weren't careful.. we would miss free breakfast!
OK.... so that was Saturday, & I've already written too much.
I've decided Sunday deserves a post of it's own.
Less than 2.5hrs of sleep, and excitement, and sun, and hangovers definitely lead to the funniest day of my life.
Oh, Barcelona, thanks!
I've decided Sunday deserves a post of it's own.
Less than 2.5hrs of sleep, and excitement, and sun, and hangovers definitely lead to the funniest day of my life.
Oh, Barcelona, thanks!
sunset :)
Temple @ night...
Jack!
Sagrada Familia
Fish..
Ohh.. Aldo ♥
Yum :)!
Fantastic.
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