Barcelona! (Spring Break Days 4 and 5)

Sorry for the lack of updates!  It's been a pretty busy week.

I haven't even finished blogging about Spring Break, which ended over a week ago...

So the Wednesday of Spring break the five of us were checking out of Paris and saying "Hola" to Barcelona!

The hostel that we stayed at, Hostel One Barcelona, was better than any hostel I had stayed at before.  this one housed maybe 50 people, and was only two floors.  After checkin, the guy who checked us in sat us down, and gave us a 10-20 minute introduction to Barcelona's touristy spots, complete with circling them on a map.  It was very welcoming, and I loved every minute of this hostel.

The rooms had tiled floors, a balcony over looking the street, and a kitchen!

We went for tapas that night, and one of the dishes I ordered was cuttlefish.  The cuttlefish was the most terrifying thing I have ever seen.  It looked it belonged as an extra in Alien vs. Predator.  Terrifying.

The next day Spencer, Kelly, Nicole, and I (Cory wasn't feeling well) went to the beach.  The beach!  First we found this cutesy cafe place, which we ended up going to for breakfast our entire stay in the city, then we hit up the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.  Though not warm enough to swim, or even sun bath, it was nice to just relax and enjoy the warm weather.

Me, Kelly, and Nicole on the Barcelona beach.

After the beach, we headed to an open market to make dinner for the night.  We decided upon salad, shrimp scampi, and rice, as well as wine/sangria of course!  The market was huge, and Kelly and I decided to split some cactus fruit (or maybe it was dragon fruit?).  Either way, its vibrant fuchsia outer skin led us to think the fruit would be flavorful, and it was not.  Womp womp.  Oh well, we tried something new, and that's what counts, right?

A juice stand at the market.

I wasn't able to get any fresh sangria during our second day in Barcelona, so I settled for some grocery store brand.  The most expensive bottle was about 2.50 euros; so cheap!  And they also had boxed wine that would give Franzia a run for its money...

Boxed wine.  Sort of looks like soup cartons.

-B