I took an afternoon flight out to Barcelona on Wednesday and came back Sunday morning so I would have a hope of working on a paper I had due on Monday. When I got into Barcelona, I took a bus to Placa de Catalunya and Polina met me there. We got tapas (patatas bravas, best thing ever) and then took the subway to her apartment. Her apartment had an extra room so I stayed there and the next morning she went to school early and I walked to her school in the early afternoon.
We spent a couple of hours between her classes going shopping around Catalunya and then we briefly ducked into La Boqueria, which is the best place ever
1 euro fruit cups and fresh juices-- I got a minimum of 2 juices everytime we came back to the Boqueria
dried fruits and nuts
fresh fruits that were SO CHEAP
candies
JUICES
towers of strawberries. coming from London where fruit is expensive AF, seeing these were AMAZING
hunks of cured meat
also so much seafood
GIANT crabs & sea urchins
LOBSTERS... one tried to attack me
A SNOUT. THAT IS A SNOUT.
Tongues, bulls balls
brains & HEADS. COW HEADS
eggs are so much cheaper than in london :(
So on Thursday, after the Boqueria, Polina went back to class and I stayed at her lounge thing at her school and did some work. After, we just went back to her apartment and got dinner at a Greek place with her roommates and went out to Bling Bling.
They eat dinner SO LATE in Barca.. like 9 pm is normal and even at midnight you see people still at restaurants eating or hanging out after a meal. So that's about when we went and after we went to a bar that was about 3 euro & you could add as much alcohol as you want. Also, chupitos. I didn't bring my phone out with me cuz I didn't want it to get stolen, but CHUPITOS and the flaming shots. It was sooo cool, the entire bar was blacklighted and we got an Australian and an American to buy us more sugary shots. We also saw some weird guys get the "Monica Lewinsky" and.... just do it, if you go to chupitos :)
On Friday, we met up with one of Polina's roommates friends, who was also in Barcelona visiting. Her roommate went out of town for a day and a half and so she went sightseeing with us. We had brunch at this cute place and the food was amazing
the back of the house
front
and thennn we went to the Sagrada Familia, which is this huge Catholic cathedral that Gaudi also built
he died during the middle of Construction, so they're still constructing now
we walked out of the subway station and we were like wait... where is it... and then we turned around and saw this haha
not too sure which side was the front or back but this was one side...
the inside was HUGE
artwork on the other side of the cathedral, it's so different than the first side
me and Polina bought tower tickets and so we went up into the spirals of the cathedral. these are some of the views from outside and from the windows inside
looking down
narrow spiral staircase in the towers
view outside
a staircase that took us back down and it was in the shape of a sea shell :)
more art
a model of what it's supposed to look like when its finished
the ceiling
us 3
more ceiling
sangria!
Daylights savings just happened here and we just bumped up an hour so.. Part 2 later:)
