Chrissy, Linden, Ellen, Cait and I traveled to Barcelona. On Thursday our plane took off bright and early at...I believe it was 7am...anyhow it was super early. When the plane got closer to Barcelona I was able to see the sunrise from the plane--beautiful and a great way to start our trip. Once we got off the plane we began to figure out how to get out of the airport and to the hostile. Our hostel was location wise-awesome-it was off of a main street, fairly close to the metro, and about a 25 minute walk to the Mediterranean Sea. We had a hostile with 8 beds, and on the second night we were joined by three people, funny thing was they were three guys from our university program. Unfortunately the first place we ate wasn't the best, the only good part was really the dessert. But we didn't let that stop us from continuing with a good day. We stopped into the Boqueria market-the largest market in Barcelona. It was absolutely incredible with fresh fruit, vegetables, seafood, meat, chocolates, gummy candy, you name it, it was probably there and fresh. In the fruit section they also made fresh juices for only 1 euro, and at night before they closed you could get 2 for 1 euro. Delicious :)
Afterward Ellen, Chrissy and I walked down to the Mediterranean Sea--an absolutely incredible sight. I took a lot of pictures. We first walked by a port that was completely filled with boats. Then we continued walking and found some lounge chairs (made of cement) that we just sat and relaxed on while the sun set.
Friday morning we started off early with seeing Gaudi's work, a famous architect. We began in La Pedrera-an apartment complex that has an interesting and unique design. We also visited La Sagrada Familia that is a huge cathedral with a different design in the front and in the back. Chrissy and I read through Gaudi's inspirations for the different parts of the cathedral and learned a lot. His inspiration was nature, in my facebook I took pictures of some of the explanations. I had a new appreciation for his work after I read that information, and saw things I wouldn't have seen otherwise. For example pieces of fruit in the top left corner on one side of the cathedral. La Sagrada Familia is still a work in progress, and they were working on it while we were there, on the columns and everything. It was really interesting to see something this massive and magnificent being put together as we walked through.
After La Sagrada Familia we made our way over to Park Guell. In the front entrance are two buildings designed by Gaudi that are sort of Dr. Suess like designs to put into perspective. There is also ceramic mosaic wall surrounding part of the park that overlooks the city. Chrissy and I visited his house and walked around the park for a while.
Our weather the whole weekend was really nice, sun shined the whole time. :)
That afternoon Chrissy, Ellen, Ariel and I visited the Cathedral of Barcelona and later met up with Cait to see a Flamenco show. The Flamenco show was a lot of fun and very interesting, I took a video of one of the dances so that my family could experience it--but have yet to put it up.
One place we ate at twice that weekend for dinner was Travel Bar, if you bought one drink, you could have a plate of food for 1 euro=excellent deal. We loved that place :)
Saturday was a little more laid back because we had seen majority of what we wanted to on Friday. Chrissy, Ellen, Ariel, and I went on a walking tour of the Gothic Neighborhood. Afterward, we joined up with Linden and Cait to eat at the Attic, recommended by our friend Grace (who had been to Barcelona for a high school trip) the food was great and reasonably priced for us, so yumm :) Once we finished dinner we took a funicular to see the Olympic Stadium. (Which I loved seeing :)) We then continued on to see the National Museum of Catalan Art that in the summer has a fountain show at night (it's near the Olympic Stadium). It's high on a mountain, and the view of the city was-once again-incredible. We could see La Sagrada Familia, and the mountains were pretty.
Sunday we headed back home :)
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