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| View of Barcelona from the top of the Park. |
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| BEAUTIFUL beach! |
Hello everyone-It is Sunday morning and it is a rainy day today :( Gabby is still sleeping so I am taking this time to update you about my spring break in Barcelona! It was so relaxing and so much fun. I went with Gemma and Mattie and it was just all around great! We got to our hostel around 9pm on Tuesday so we just went for dinner (I got gnocci and sangria..mmm!) and then walked down Las Ramblas (a famous street in Barcelona for night light and statues, etc).
Wednesday we slept in (Barcelona is on a crazy time schedule) and woke up to a beautiful day. The sun was shinning and we didn't even need to wear jackets. We headed to Park Guell, a park created by the famous and BRILLIANT architect, Antoni Gaudi.
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| Park Guell |
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| Sagrada Familia |
The park was beautiful and very big. The buildings, the plant life, the caves, all of it was created is such a great fashion, it was a lot of fun and sort of "self-cleansing" for me. I say that because we walked to the top of a hill to a large stone cross and on the way saw so much culture and nature. It felt good to be there and accomplished the walk. After the park we headed back down to the city and got lunch. We went to this little cafe where I got a guava smoothie. Oh, did it make me miss Hawaii! I am obsessed with guava juice and this smoothie made life that much better! After lunch we made our way to Sagrada Familia, a chapel that Guadi designed and started in 1883. It is still under construction and probably will be for a long time. The designs are so delicate that they can't use a lot of modern technology. Hopefully I will some day be able to go back and see the finished product. When we first walked in, I got the chills and my breath was taken away. It was absolutely stunning with so many colors shinning through from the stain glass windows. I was in complete awe.  |
| so many colors! |
After the chapel we headed back for our own siesta, much needed! We then got a free dinner in the hostel and got ready for the night. We went to a shot bar off of the beach, which was a lot of fun. There were over 200 different shots you can take, it was great! We met a few people there from the states who are studying in France. After there we headed back towards the hostel and met two guys from Bristol, England. We sat in the Plaza by our hostel and talked with them for a while, it was a good time.
We found a spot on the beach and immediately laid down facing the sun, we couldn't be happier. The warmth felt so good and the waves crashing was music to our ears. We laid there for about 40 minutes in pure relaxation, minus a few Asian ladies trying to offer us massages, which got very annoying. We decided to walk farther down the beach and we did that close to the water. Let's just say it was like putting your feet in Lake Michigan at the begging of the summer, it felt like ice! Of course a wave came in farther and higher than I thought and the whole bottom of my already cuffed pants were soaked and filled with sand. Eh, the compromise you must have at the beach! After about two hours roaming around parts of the beach, we heading back to the hostel picking up a baguette, cheese, and wine for a little snack before our siesta and dinner. That night we met 7 guys from Argentina and we hung out with them before heading out to the club. We had a lot of fun.
Friday I woke up to travel back by myself since the other girls were staying until Saturday. It was my first official time travelling just me and it went pretty well, I was proud of myself to get around a country that I don't know the language and successfully made it back to London. It felt SOO good to hear people speaking English!
Well, Gabby is up now and it is time to show her London! More to come about her week visit here =)
-Cheerio!
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