Okay so me and roomie's sister were meeting roomie over in
Barcelona. He had been studying in Spain for the last 3 months abroad and ended school a few weeks earlier. Our 17ish day trip was planned on
Barcelona, Paris, then Italy. We used eurail passes to get around and stayed in hostels. I'll write some stuff I learned on my travels (Dos/Donts) for those Americans who want to travel to Europe in the future.
So we left on May 10th or 11th or something like that. The flight was long as I could not really sleep very much on the plane (Roomie's sister (RS) got to sleep no problem). We first started in
Barcelona and stayed in Hostel Paris, a ghetto ****ing place with little ventilation. It was stuffy and lame, though it was on a great location (Ramblas street) and close to alot of big stuff.
So we didn't do a whole lot the first night. We got in, got settled, walked around town and went to bed early. But met briefly with one of Roomie's friends who he met while abroad in Malaga, Spain. Hung out for a bit then slept. To be honest, we didn't really go out very much whilst in Europe. Pretty lame I know, but we were always so worn out from getting up early and touring every place. The conversion rates were killing my friends too, as they are relatively busto. So no real crazy bar stories.
The second day we met up with Roomies (R) friends. we toured around and went to various churches and other sites.
Here is one more :
its so horrible though because I don't remember the names of alot of these cathedrals and such. This one was very cool though.
here is one more of all of us. R's friend's boyfriend, R's friend, me, roomie, RS.
we also did guell park (sp?) which was a large park with cool structures.
along Ramblas St. there were alot of cool costume people. Pretty much make their living from tips and such. There was this great Michael Jackson impersonator who did all the dances/moves to Billie Jean which was really cool, but I didn't have my camera at the time.
I got my picture with my Asian bretheran though:
Anyways, not a whole lot in
Barcelona. The last day we went to the beach. We spent a few days in
Barcelona, not too long. Ate Paella (the national dish) which was rice, seafood and other stuff. Didn't really like it much and was pretty sure I wasn't going to due to its contents but had to try it anyways.
This internet is really inconsistent and ghetto so I'll post this now. This is just
Barcelona, will start on the rest in a bit.