Sometimes I feel like I'm in Barcelona, see anytime I hear this tune I just start drifting away...
Ok so here's my Barcelona post! Apologies to those of you that have seen this before via email, but you know... mostly I guess you guys haven't. Kerry and I went to Barcelona on the 3rd of August and it was awesome <3
I was like, kind of annoyed by how early I had to get up because I am NOT a morning person. But we dealt with it. The airline's check in desks had such a huge queue and we were panicking that we wouldn't make check in but then we got rushed forwards before it closed. On the plane we couldn't sit next to each other so we sat across the aisle, and Kerry accidently whipped me in the face with her headphones! I kept dragging that up for the whole holiday lolz. Every night I scribbled down little randoms so I wouldn't get mixed up about what happened each day... aren't I organised?
MONDAY
Ok so we got to the airport and took the special "Aerobus" to Placa Catalunya, which was down the road from our hotel. It took us about 15 minutes to walk to our hotel, I was really paranoid that we'd miss the street or whatever and I kept checking my map 0.o but we found it really easily, actually. We got there earlier than the check in time so I presumed we'd have to wait for the room but they gave us it right away =D So we went up and got organised working out all the things that we wanted to do and the days that we should go everywhere. We absolutely failed to stick to the plan but it kind of helped anyway just to have worked it out.
Photos from the hotel room... we weren't entirely sure why there was an exercise bike in the room but we kind of went with it. The photo of Kerry pointing to the grape is because I threw one at her and it bounced off her head. We were looking for it for ages &it had bounced into the bathroom haha. We thought it was hilarious =/
After we kinda sat doing nothing for a bit we went to the supermarket and brought all the stuff back, then walked all the way down Las Ramblas to the port. Rambla is like, the major street that cuts from the city centre to the bay, and it joins onto the street round the corner from the hotel at the top, &the port's bridge at the bottom. They have all those statue people and performers all down the road, Kerry was like in love with all of the artists, especially the spray paint ones. We watched loads of them. The bridge in the photo is Rambla de Mar and it crosses over into like this complex where there's a mall, cinema, aquarium, loads of restaurants. It's really nice down there. Most of the bridge and stuff has no railings so everyone sits on the sides dangling their legs over =D The dude on the column is Christopher Columbus. The lions are from the base of the column &I could not have slipped more getting up there. Kerry took like four pictures of me and I've fallen on alllllll of them lolz. We had waffles at the port and they were soooo nice <3 And then when we came back up we stopped to eat on Rambla and Kerry tried paella for the first time ever. She was proud of herself for being all adventurous.
That building is Casa Battlo, it's one of Gaudi's works. I could tell from the map that it was really near our hotel, it looked to be two streets across and one road down. We wandered around for a while in the day looking for it, then when we were walking up at night from the port we found it by accident... there was a McDonalds sign that made it look like it was in the sky, so we looked up jokingly looking for the McDonlads, and saw this. I was like "typical". We never got around to going in because I prefer Gaudi's other house, but it is really gorgeous. After that we walked past it like twice a day, and our nearest metro stop was right outside. It turned out it was on the same road as our hotel, not one street down.
TUESDAY
Tuesday we were SUPPOSED to go to Parc Guell, Sagrada Familia and Casa Milo. Despite Kerry's "oh can we get up at half eight?" we didn't get up till like, noon. So I thought we'd just do the park and the church and fit the house in somewhere else. We took the metro up to the park... there are two stops nearby, Vallcarca and Lesseps. Vallcarca is closer to the park but the website I'd been on said it was a steeper walk, so we got off at Lesseps. It was supposed to be signposted but just wasn't. We walked in the general direction of the park and eventually found signposts, so followed them. Yeah it turned out that they were the signposts from Vallcarca, the STEEP way. And mannnnn was it steep! It's 0.6 miles directly UPHILL. The hill's so steep that they have steps instead of a slope, &they have outdoor escalators! One of them was broken, too. So we went up these four escalators, then there was a really steep slope, then more stairs, then a steep slope, then more stairs. And oh, btw, it was 34C/93F that day. So we were pretty much dead by the top. But it's so pretty up there. In the first photo, the building dead centre is the Sagrada Familia. IRL it was really amazing seeing it from up there. Mine and Kerry's picnic sandwiches were the same size as our heads =D
After that we pretty much just gave up on the church, went back to our hotel room and DIED. Afterwards we walked down to the port again and watched the fish swim around. I met Jack on the way down there! That guy was amazing, he messed my hair up and shook my hand, then tried to flatten my hair back down. Kerry thought it would be a good idea to eat a caramel waffle AND a chocolate crepe at the same time and then felt like throwing up all night.
That is gonna take a WHILE to load. I'll post the other half in a seperate post. Onto part two...
I was like, kind of annoyed by how early I had to get up because I am NOT a morning person. But we dealt with it. The airline's check in desks had such a huge queue and we were panicking that we wouldn't make check in but then we got rushed forwards before it closed. On the plane we couldn't sit next to each other so we sat across the aisle, and Kerry accidently whipped me in the face with her headphones! I kept dragging that up for the whole holiday lolz. Every night I scribbled down little randoms so I wouldn't get mixed up about what happened each day... aren't I organised?
MONDAY
Ok so we got to the airport and took the special "Aerobus" to Placa Catalunya, which was down the road from our hotel. It took us about 15 minutes to walk to our hotel, I was really paranoid that we'd miss the street or whatever and I kept checking my map 0.o but we found it really easily, actually. We got there earlier than the check in time so I presumed we'd have to wait for the room but they gave us it right away =D So we went up and got organised working out all the things that we wanted to do and the days that we should go everywhere. We absolutely failed to stick to the plan but it kind of helped anyway just to have worked it out.
Photos from the hotel room... we weren't entirely sure why there was an exercise bike in the room but we kind of went with it. The photo of Kerry pointing to the grape is because I threw one at her and it bounced off her head. We were looking for it for ages &it had bounced into the bathroom haha. We thought it was hilarious =/
After we kinda sat doing nothing for a bit we went to the supermarket and brought all the stuff back, then walked all the way down Las Ramblas to the port. Rambla is like, the major street that cuts from the city centre to the bay, and it joins onto the street round the corner from the hotel at the top, &the port's bridge at the bottom. They have all those statue people and performers all down the road, Kerry was like in love with all of the artists, especially the spray paint ones. We watched loads of them. The bridge in the photo is Rambla de Mar and it crosses over into like this complex where there's a mall, cinema, aquarium, loads of restaurants. It's really nice down there. Most of the bridge and stuff has no railings so everyone sits on the sides dangling their legs over =D The dude on the column is Christopher Columbus. The lions are from the base of the column &I could not have slipped more getting up there. Kerry took like four pictures of me and I've fallen on alllllll of them lolz. We had waffles at the port and they were soooo nice <3 And then when we came back up we stopped to eat on Rambla and Kerry tried paella for the first time ever. She was proud of herself for being all adventurous.
That building is Casa Battlo, it's one of Gaudi's works. I could tell from the map that it was really near our hotel, it looked to be two streets across and one road down. We wandered around for a while in the day looking for it, then when we were walking up at night from the port we found it by accident... there was a McDonalds sign that made it look like it was in the sky, so we looked up jokingly looking for the McDonlads, and saw this. I was like "typical". We never got around to going in because I prefer Gaudi's other house, but it is really gorgeous. After that we walked past it like twice a day, and our nearest metro stop was right outside. It turned out it was on the same road as our hotel, not one street down.
TUESDAY
Tuesday we were SUPPOSED to go to Parc Guell, Sagrada Familia and Casa Milo. Despite Kerry's "oh can we get up at half eight?" we didn't get up till like, noon. So I thought we'd just do the park and the church and fit the house in somewhere else. We took the metro up to the park... there are two stops nearby, Vallcarca and Lesseps. Vallcarca is closer to the park but the website I'd been on said it was a steeper walk, so we got off at Lesseps. It was supposed to be signposted but just wasn't. We walked in the general direction of the park and eventually found signposts, so followed them. Yeah it turned out that they were the signposts from Vallcarca, the STEEP way. And mannnnn was it steep! It's 0.6 miles directly UPHILL. The hill's so steep that they have steps instead of a slope, &they have outdoor escalators! One of them was broken, too. So we went up these four escalators, then there was a really steep slope, then more stairs, then a steep slope, then more stairs. And oh, btw, it was 34C/93F that day. So we were pretty much dead by the top. But it's so pretty up there. In the first photo, the building dead centre is the Sagrada Familia. IRL it was really amazing seeing it from up there. Mine and Kerry's picnic sandwiches were the same size as our heads =D
After that we pretty much just gave up on the church, went back to our hotel room and DIED. Afterwards we walked down to the port again and watched the fish swim around. I met Jack on the way down there! That guy was amazing, he messed my hair up and shook my hand, then tried to flatten my hair back down. Kerry thought it would be a good idea to eat a caramel waffle AND a chocolate crepe at the same time and then felt like throwing up all night.
That is gonna take a WHILE to load. I'll post the other half in a seperate post. Onto part two...