So way back in December I went to Barcelona! It was a great trip. I went with my new friend Kerry who was studying in Lyons on exchange from Waterloo. We had gone to Austria together in October and had a great time.
Spending Christmas in Barcelona was quite different than in Canada. First of all it was around 20 degrees the whole time we were there, and there were palm trees everywhere. I would say there was no snow, but honestly I haven't really had snow on Christmas day since I moved to Shelburne, so that wasn't so different.
The hostel we stayed in were great. We met some nice people, and they had a Christmas eve dinner for everyone.
We went to Guell Park, and saw Gaudi's other buildings (though didn't go in, things were a little pricey). Most of the trip, however, was spent shopping. They had so many little shops selling things quite cheaply, and it was a lot of fun to just look around them and wander in the sun eating ice cream.
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| Guell Park's Lizar |
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| A Griffin at Gaudi's Fountain (Not Guell Park) |
Christmas day we went to the beach and stopped for lunch in an Irish Pub (we are so international). I wished I had brought my bathing suit. Everyone told me it would be under 10 degrees there at Christmas, and I wouldn't be able to go swimming. But the water was definitely warm enough for me to go swimming, and I would have. Although I would have been the only one in the water. Although later in the day we saw some surfers.
Christmas night we went to see the Font Magica (Magic Fountain) and it was awesome! We went with our new friend Mrinelini. She was staying with us at the hostel, traveling abroad from India. It was a lot of fun.
Sorry that I'm just posting about it now, but I had posted it, and the post was lost in cyberspace, and I hadn't been able to get a post to stick since. Until the last post. So now that I'm on Easter Vacation I'm finally getting around to posting it back up. Had to rewrite it though. :(
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