Me looking and feeling like crap on our way to the metro.
Let's start from the beginning. Our first flight was nonstop to Heathrow via Virgin Atlantic. VA is cool! I swear, it feels like some Austin Powers disco with their 70s orange, purple, red, and blue seats and blankets, and their dark purple flooring and red curtains. Also they have a bar for ¨"Upper class" customers. It´s literally like an open bar. Like Jet Blue, they have LCD screens in the seats, but not just any LCD screen. You have a choice between something like 20-40 movies that you can choose from plus unlimited music as well as video games. I watched Transporter 2 and Memoirs of a Geisha. They didn´t erase the scenes with a plane crashing in Transporter 2. They also had Brokeback Mountain on there. I wonder if they cutout the bufu scene. Anyway, I didn´t get much sleep (damn movies) but the flight went by quickly. Too bad I had really bad allergies which started acting up by the end of the flight.
After we got to Heathrow, we took a bus to Gatwick airport in order to jump on the EasyJet for a two hour flight to Barcelona. We were really hungry but McD´s didn´t take c/c so we ended up at Starbucks in which case, we spent twice the amount of USD. Damn the American dollar! Anyway, EasyJet was cool... kinda like Southwest. Raf swears the airplane we were on was brand new. Sucky that you had to pay for drinks. We didn´t have any GBP. Anyway, we took the Aerobus to the metro, and then L3 to our hostel, Barcelona 4 Fun is located on Carrer Ample. Btw, we LOVED this hostel. CLEAN, the best location, easy and close to everything (shopping, food, bars, metro, etc), and the people that work there are sooo nice and responsible. We didn't have an alarm clock and they woke us up early in the morn.
Walking through the minidoor which is part of the huge door that is left open during the day.
"I got stuck!"
At the bottom of the building. Our hostel is on the 3rd and 4th floors.
Metro!
Barcelona is actually really easy to get around. Our hostel is located on a quaint little "alley/road" typical of a European street. It´s quiet but lively since we are close to one of the main roads in Barcelona. Our hostel is extremely nice and clean (something I wasn't expecting), and everything is furnished with Ikea. The building itself is very old (but not worn down). Outside the balcony is a view of a bunch of other buildings with balconies and plants. When we were trying to find the hostel, Raf was speaking to this Chinese dood in Spanish, then it turned to French, and then English. Damn, I feel like an idiot not being bi/trilingual here.
Living room with free internet!
Bedroom with comfortable bed and pillows.
View from the balcony of the hostel.
We just walked around our hostel and checked out a random restaurant down one of the little streets. $40 here gets you what would be considered a 5-star in America (we are assuming that that is average here). Ahhhh food! I am moving to Spain! haha. We ordered a Crepe with spinach and cheese (delicious!), veal Carpaccio, and duck breast with poached pear. The waitress was somewhat weirded out that we ordered carpaccio with duck breast. Is that a no-no here? They also served us bread, and a liter of bottled water which turned out to be 4 EUR. They don´t serve tap here, and the bread is REALLY GOOD! Apparently, you don´t tip here, and on the bill they charge for service/bread for 1,5 EUR.
Crepe!
Carpaccio (the best I've had next to Fleming's!!!) and duck breast (sooooo good!!!)
After dinner, we just wandered the streets and checked out the bars. They were ALL PACKED with screaming fans of the World Cup. Pretty cool. Earlier in the day, we saw a group of Brasilians hitting drums, blowing whistles, and dancing down the street. Then this old Asian guy came out of a store and started dancing too. hahah. Was cute. It is so cool to be around sooo many different cultures and languages. People are very nice and courteous thus far.
Brasilians --> Blow the whistle! Toot toot!
Well I have been up for more than 24 hours so it´s time for bed.
¡Adios!
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