We left Prague around noon last Thursday and got to Barcelona around 3 or so. After finding our hostel we began to walk around and venture out around the city. It was kind of overcast and there was a bit of rain the first night we were there but nothing that held us back too much. We walked down Las Ramblas which is the kind of main street tourist area of Barcelona and saw all the different venders that were there. At the end of it you end up at a huge statue or Christopher Columbus and a huge dock. We hung out around here and just took it easy the first day. The night ended and I was starting to worry that maybe Barcelona wasn't going to be as great as I had built it up to be. Oh boy was I wrong!
The next day we woke up and decided to go and visit "La Sagrada Familia" which is the huge cathedral that is still in the process of being built. It was started for Gaudi over a hundred years ago. It was so amazing and had such interesting and beautiful architecture that I had never seen before! I was amazed as to how much construction was still left. There was only a small area that we could walk through and there was scalfolding in the entire center area and we could even look out to the sky through open areas in the ceiling. It was as if none of that mattered at all though because it was all truly amazing! Of all the different cathedrals and churches that I have seen, this was by far one of the most amazing, and there is still so much left! My goal is to be able to come back and see it when it is complete.
We then made our way over to Park Guell. I had no idea what I was in store for but ended up being so pleasently surprised! It was a beautiful and amazing park that was filled with more Gaudi architecture. For those of you that may watch America's Next Top Model, the season where Caridee wins and they have their last runway walk as the scary brides, the runway show took place in Park Guell. I recommend that you do a google picture search right now and look at how amazing this Park is!
We then decided to venture down to the beach and we walked probably a good 8-10 miles along the coast. It was so amazing! We then went and had some authentic Spanish food of a Paella and Andrew got some Tapas.
Ok, this is starting to get rather long so I must speed up this summary. The next day we took a free boat ride along the coast of Barcelona which I ended up feeling kind of sea sick from...so much of it was spent with me sitting downstairs at a table with my head on it. We had heard that when in Barcelona it was a necesity to take the cable car up to the top of the Mountain there and look around. So we walked a good mile or two around the harbor to the base of the cable car, paid a large chunk of money, went on it, and then found out it was the wrong cable car. We were all able to laugh pretty hard at this though and became more funny then anything.
We walked up to the top of the Mountain and had a great view of Barcelona from an old sort of fortress that was there. We were there right as the sun was setting. We then went to where this Palace was and had amazing fountains infront of it that had amazing colors on it and one large fountain that shot up water in the air to music. It was so beautiful from there!
The next day we spent hanging out at the beach. It was beautiful! Not a cloud in the sky! We then went to another Park that was there and then found a really pretty Arc as well.
To wrap it all up, Barcelona is by far my FAVORITE European city, and quite possibly my favorite city that I have ever been to! Oh, and we also stopped over in Milan for a night on the way back, but really, it's not worth mentioning. There is pretty much nothing there and became more of a joke to us then anything.
I would tell anyone though to go and visit Barcelona! It was so beautiful and amazing and you will not be disapointed! I will for sure be returning there one day...not sure when, but I will make it happen!
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