I don't know if it's strictly a girl thing or if it's just a problem I have, but it still ceases to amaze me how one person with only 30 hours in Barcelona can spend so much money. Katie and I literally only had 30 hours (including sleeping time) in Barcelona, Spain but somehow we managed to find a hostel (very long story), go check out the Barcelona clubs, sleep in a non-English speaking strangers apartment for 50 Euros, spend a lot of money shopping (most spent on souvenirs), find an antique market and buy one-of-a-kind rings to pass on to our children, eat supper on the beach, and sleep one hour before we had to be at the airport for our flight to Paris. Because we weren't in Barcelona very long, I don't have many pictures....but here are few of what I did get taken.
We arrived in Barcelona around 10:30 pm and still didn't have a hostel/hotel booked so we walked around for two hours searching and searching for anywhere that still had a room open. Luckily one hostel owner pulled some strings for us, and we were able to crash at his brother's apartment in a spare room he sometimes rents out to people. His name was Aboo and when he told us that all I could think was, "Like the monkey?" (Off Aladin the Disney movie)
This is a picture of the bed Katie and I shared at Aboo's apartment. Don't let the friendly sheets fool you, it was NOT a comfortable bed and it was freezing in his apartment...and yep you guessed it, he only gave us one blanket.
Because we didn't get to town until late at night, many of the grocery stores and restaurants were closed or closing down. We happened to run into a convenient-type store and grabbed what we could to eat. I had cold, soft vegetables, and Katie had an apple and yogurt....at least we still ate healthy!
After a horrible but adventurous night out in Barcelona we spent the next day on the streets exploring.
We took a quick look into this cathedral, and as you can see from the outside it was quite amazing.
This is the sign they had posted outside the cathedral. I think it's the European way of saying, "No shirt. No shoes. No service." It made me laugh.
These are our antique rings from this huge antique market that was outside the cathedral. I literally could have spent all day there looking at everything. It was crazy and I'm pretty sure my grandpas would have gone nuts there.
These couple pictures are snap shots taken during supper. We ate at this nice, quite place on the port and watched the sunset. It was a nice peaceful way to end our time in Barcelona.
Oh, and this was the sign on the ladies bathroom door. They always have some very interesting signs and posters hanging up for bathrooms.
On our way back to our hotel it was getting chillier out so we decided to stop in a little cafe/restaurant to have some hot chocolate and Baileys liquor. This drink has grown to be one of our favorites in all of Europe. We don't allow ourselves to have it much though because we almost want to die when we think of all the calories we are taking in by drinking it...so worth it though!
That night we packed up and finished planning our Paris adventure (well somewhat), because we were not going to go through what we did in Barcelona with not finding a hostel. By the time we were done with all of that is was 1:30 am and we had to be up by 2:30 am to leave to find the bus to the airport, so we took a quick hour nap.
An hour later we were off to Paris!!
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