Barcelona

So what to say about Barcelona? For those who have been there before while under the age of 25 I'll just pause. Yeah. For those who haven't, I'll try to paint a picture with some of my experiences...first off I had to get on Barcelona time. Thankfully was there for 8 nights, so I had plenty of time. I stayed at the famous hostel (a really good hostel chain) called Kabul for the last 6 nights. This is the kind of place that you don't expect to sleep. Turns out i slept a lot, just during the day. Happy hour at the hostel bar is from 10 to 11 pm, and is two for one beers. So for 2 euros you get 1 liter of beer. Sounds like a disaster huh? We would drink until about 12:30am, then the girls would run upstairs so we could put our going out clothes on. Then everyone would leave for the club at 1:45am. The hostel people take the group out every night, they have a different club for each day of the week. When you go out with them it's usually free cover and you don't have to wait in line, so its a sweet deal. The nights that I went out I wouldn't get back to the hostel until about 5am. I would wake up at about 1pm, usually feeling like it HAD to be super early, maybe 10am. Wrong every time. But now thanks to living Barcelona time I understand the whole siesta concept. I would usually go to the beach after waking up, grabbing breakfast on the way. Getting back to the hostel around 5pm from the beach would leave time for a siesta before beginning to get ready for the next night at around 9pm. See what I mean about Barcelona time? They're on their own schedule..

As promised, I did take some cultural days off from clubbing, and got a chance to walk around to all the Gaudi buildings. He's a famous architect from Barcelona that created very interesting and crazy buildings. He died before completing his cathedral, which is the one that every takes pictures of when they're there. I also spent a couple hours in the Picasso museum, which was definitely worth it. It features Picasso's early work, beginning when he was only 15. Since he's from Barcelona, they spend a lot of time talking about how their city inspired him. There are a lot of sketches there too; it was cool seeing his rough drafts next to the actual paintings. It was a really cool museum. 

I'm kind of happy to be leaving Barcelona, on my way to San Sebastian now! I didn't sleep last night since my train left at 7:30am, so I would have had to wake up at 6:00am. I took a quick nap, but didn't really sleep, actually kinda hilarious my roommates were just getting back when I was leaving :) can't wait for my next town!

Things i learned in Barcelona:
1. Siesta is awesome
2. They sell birds on the street, WTF?
3. A vodka/red bull in a club costs 10 euros
4. There is such thing as bad paella in Spain
5. They have 3-story McDonalds, and it's cool to eat-in