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November 16, 2008 More than words can say, Lazy Sunday afternoon, Pictures of you, Try walking in my shoes, Barcelona 6 CommentsI’m always both surprised and impressed when arriving in a foreign country I see that things really work there. Because we arrived in Barcelona rather late at night, I was a bit panicky and stressed, not knowing what public transport we would take from there. But we just had to step outside the airport and there was a bus waiting to take us to Plaça Catalunya from where we were supposed to walk to our hostel. Pluses: the aerobus is cheap - 4.05 Euro, it has special places where you can put your bags and it comes regularly.
Paintings on a block ![]()

Following the instructions from the hostel, we arrived there after no more than a 20-minute walk. And cause we were really hungry, we left the bags in our room and we went in search of a restaurant. We were really lucky to find one very close to the hostel and the personnel there was great, feeding 2 hungry foreigners just before their closing time. I had the best salad ever there, really! ![]()

So, the first day. We’re not morning persons, so we got up at about half past 10 and we finally left the hostel at about 12 or something. First things first, we went to pick up our Sigur Rós tickets from FNAC, where I discovered the bookaholics paradise and he discovered the music-freaks paradise
Ofc, I had to buy something, so I go this beauty. I can hardly wait to read it! CATS! ![]()
Next destination: the popular and touristic street, La Rambla. First of all, I was totally impressed by the architecture I saw there. Vienna was wonderful too, but only there did I realise it was kind of the same. Barcelona was so diverse, so unique regarding the architecture of the buildings - it went straight to number 1 of my top of cities seen so far
And another thing that I really loved about La Rambla, was the very many narrow streets on both sides. And wandering around them was like walking through different cities all the time. We discovered so many nice shops there and so many nice views. It was like a maze that surprised us at every turn.



Oh, I should not forget about the Carrefour on La Rambla, which saved us from starvation and provided us with Spanish oranges, Sunny D *loved it!!!*, sweets and so many other delights for gourmets
Yes, oranges taste better in Spain ![]()

The Wax Museum was fun and scary at the same time and the harbour was impressive. I don’t know where we went next and what we saw, because we preferred just to wander around and not look at the guide/map all the time. Truth is that we walked a lot in those 4 days and my feet could barely put up with that. At the end of the day I was so beat, that I could hardly wait to get to bed. But it was worth the pain and the fatigue. Truly worth it ![]()

































