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I managed to survive my first day and night in Barcelona. Got a great night sleep and woke up a lil stiff but everything was working ok. Ritual time…except on with the street clothes and I grabbed me day pack. So cool it folds up into a self contained lil pouch but it’s a back pack….awesome. Nice not wearing the gear and a lil easier to trot about. Load up a few things into me day pack and I take advantage of the breakfast in the hotel. Hit the spot and….I figure I’ll try to get into the Sacrada Familia as I had asked the bartender when a good time to try to visit was to avoid the crowds. He suggested in the morning. Seems like tourist groups can’t get their caca (not sure how to spell that but trying to be civil for those in the slow class its S%#t) together till at least noon. So I ask the hotel desk the best way to get there…they suggest the Metro. Whooo hooo sounds like and adventure…they give a map …. Reaffirm that a retard can sort it out and off I goooo. Not sure but I think I heard him snickering on me way out the door…hmmmm
Still sort of hard to believe I’m here. Barcelona…even sounds exotic…..seems a long ways from home….ah heck it is LOL. Hmmm rum+laptop+internet connection = crazy trip it would seem. Liking the math a lot so far. Tons of history here… was never sure how to tackle Europe….I think I found the way… Rum….you never let me down.
So of course I get lost…can’t find the metro entrance….hunt around….have to ask..the dude points sorta across the street….are ya kidding me…sigh….maybe I am directionally challenged...sigh… head hanging low..I go into the bowels of Barcelona….
The Metro is really cool….so easy to get around after all….try not to look too touristy but me takin pics of the metro gave it away…sighhhh…took all of 10 minutes tops and 1 change of trains and I popped out right at the Cathedral….like a ground hog. Blinked a bit…..and walked right over to the ticket office about 2o meters away…..no one is there LOL….awesome. This is how they are paying for the construction it would seem…so 16 euro lighter….12 to get in and 4 for an elevator ride…to to where…I have no idea.
I took pictures…and wow outside is cool…..still don’t get it……but inside OMG…..its like a Cathedral in there! Oh right it is…..but again…with the weird arse art thingy going…..maybe Gaudi discovered LSD too I wonder. My neck hurt fro looking up…..but it is one impressive building. The pope just officially gave it to the big guy in 2010 as the inside was officially finished…I think its slated to be done in 2040…..seriouslyyyyyy Google it or Wikipedia it if you have not heard of it…craziest thing I’ve seen to date and I have seen some wild stuff in my travels thus far…the bar has been raised LOL.
Time to find me elevator ride…..as its quite punctual ….my ticket say 10:40….its 10:37…..I find it…I give the ticket to the gal…..and she says…sorry you have to return at 10:40…….LOL…Ok…..then…I can do that. So I step outside…..take 2 pictures…..go back in and she allows me to walk to the elevator….nothing special…just an elevator….no idea where its going to take me….Hop in….and it pops me out of one of the spires….. Wow …what a view…and yup I still think they are fruit baskets on top. I didn’t get the sunflowers either…40 million at the time ya gotta be kidding me. Maybe it’s my Saskatchewan roots.
So I end up at the top of a spire…wow….what a view…..uhhhhhh yup….they look like fruit baskets. I don’t get it…..but its cool. Can’t describe how this place looks. So the elevator got me up now its time to walk down …. Bump into a British gal….and she wants her pic taken so I help her out,. We talked the whole way down…..she was just no a lil getaway from England. So cool to be so close to this kind of thing. We parted with a handshake. Neat to just bump into people like that.
I could go on n on about the place let me just summize…holy crap cool…so don’t get Gauti….but it looks good in the end. I wander around and finally decide its time to exit…..mojito and tapa time……is that wrong?
So I wandered about found a cool bar…well if I don’t bump into the Barcelona cathedral…non Gaudi version…from like the 13th century….well I gotta check that out…..It just opened….adn I was first one in the door LOL. Holy crap….its huge and WOW! Huge amounts of art and artifacts from the 12th to 15th century…amazing….. and they have a free elevator to the top…so I hitch a ride…and not a bad view. Tres cool. Okay…serious its mojito time again is that wrong…not sure if there is suppose to be a cooling off period between sins and church time. I’m such an amateur in these things….
Lo and behold not 5 mins from the Cathedral a lil plaza with some cool bars…..I pluncker down and commence to having some tapas and what I thought would be a mojito…turned in to a pitcher of Sangrias…mostly because it was sunny and hot out….now I’m the first to say I always thought Sangrias were sort of a poof’s drink…not that there is anything wrong with that….but k there is something different about them here….hmmm what is it…oh I go tit…..dammmm they’re good and refreshing on a hot day. Mental note ne pitcher of Sangrias and English is impossible…however my Spanish seemed to improve….All sorts of musicians started to play and stuff….all wanting a hand out of course….I felt the need to keep exploring…then the need to sit back and relax took over..so I just sat n chatted with the neighbors and got tanked……I’m weak…what can I say.
So from there I staggered around the side streets…..so cool….and not like home. I managed to find me hotel amazingly……and another round of tapas and time to crash….was actually a pretty good day……
Got back to the hotel after and talked to the guy at the desk for a while whilst I sipped wine for a while...learned alot about why he thinks that Spain won't stay in the EU...ohhh and there is a general strike tomorrow...all shops will be closed with marches...great.......
I’ll figure tomorrow out…tomorrow but good day to exit the big city...
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