The Siesta and Fiesta City

There was not a whole lot to do in Barcelona, we spent a fair amount of time sleeping and going out. Since we are quite a bit ahead of our schedule, an extra day was added to Barcelona, if only to get a little much needed sleep. We did some walking around, like usual, around town and at one point to a hillside for a nice view. A view we never did find after about 2 hours of uphill walking, it was a disapointing walk back. We went to the Las Tremblas strip, which was interesting if anything. At night you could probably get any drug you wanted without any trouble, people were offering it all over the place, even Charlie, we didnt know what it was so we assumed it was crack. During the day there were these crazy street acts, that were so much acts as people dressing up rediculously and expecting money. There were some magicians and weird songs going on. Even two random dudes crowing at the top of their lungs... what? ya, I don't understand either. We almost gave them money just for how rediculous it was, almost.

The hostel Barcelona in was another small one, which meant easy friends. I think in Spain we learned more about American culture than Spanish. Two of our new friends had many stories to tell about guns in the U.S. The town that they live in has 4 gun stores for every liquor store and they aren't short on liquor stores. They were pretty shocked that me (and all the other canadians in the hostel) wouldn't even know to start looking for a handgun. I bet they wished they had had their guns when ones wallet was stolen, then a camera by the same guy later and finally getting dooped into buying a 200 euro bag of rocks(which was switched with the bag with a computer and cell phone in it). I even met a dude from Ottawa, who at somepoint, I plan to meet with after his return.

I think the part I liked the best about Spain was their siestas, from about 4-6 things shut down and everyone would have a nap. That nap made for late nights, people dont start getting ready to go to bar until atleast 11pm, and get home at 5am. I think thats why we slept in a lot.

Its has been cool meeting people everywhere, but cooler when we run into people from previous cities. We ran into these three sisters on our pubcrawl that we met in Florence a while back. That was nice because we had some instant friends there.

Thats about it for Spain, next I am off to test out my french!!