Ramblas Guesthouse Barcelona

... greenery, attractive residents, good food, and legendary nightlife. I strongly recommend it.<br>On Wednesday night (the 23rd) the festival of La Mercé kicked off. My original plan for the evening was to go on a tapas/flamenco tour that the hostel was supposed to organize, but there weren't enough people signed up for the hostel to go through with it. So I made my own tour; joining me were a Japanese girl about to get married and two Aussie ...

... Patrick looked at our train reservations and it became apparent to us that we had come to the wrong station! We had to go to Barcelona-Fransa station instead! So, we immediately hopped in cab and were at the next station within twenty minutes.<br><br>Luckily, we were mistaken about our 8:00 am train and instead it was at 8:45 am! So, indeed we had made it on time and were ready to go to Paris! :)

... on the road trip with are all from Mexico. Bego and David are from Guadalajara and have known each other since they were little... and Alejandra is from around Mexico City. I was the only American! We spoke Spanish the entire week, and it was awesome practice for me being with only Spanish speakers. Sometimes it was frustrating, when I didn't understand a joke or something, but they were good at explaining things to me ...

... day seminar. The visiting pastor is Spanish, but he and his wife are currently residing in Libertador San Martín, in Argentina. For those unaware, LSM is 'Sevyville' (a town with many Seventh-day Adventist institutions) - like Avondale, but on a larger scale. It is also where my dear maternal grandmother lives (independently, and turning 89 this March). Despite the lack of language barriers, the combination of being mentally drained from the first week of Spanish ...

... and they are big costumes that people get inside and walk around in. They parade down the streets, all of them representing some form of timeline in Barcelona history. As we my friend Abby and I were meeting up with our friends Tuesday night we randomly found a parade of "giantes". We knew there was one the next day but since this was random and at night and everyone was cheering and dancing, we joined the parade for a few blocks before realizing we were ...

... beber y emborracharse porque no sé quien va a leer esto, como mis padres. Sabes? (if you can't understand that then you know what to do to figure it out). Entonces, después de nosotros salir del bar, una amiga se llama Jessica y yo queríamos comer algo. Algo, no nos importaba. Necesitabamos comida inmediatamente! Buscamos un restaurante que estaba abierto pero no pudimos encontrarlo. Sin embargo, por fin encontramos un restaurante que estaba abierto!!!!! Y ...

... They've even recovered a couple of bullets and a cannon ball. Nice beach too (in that it had sand and there was enough room to lie down). Great place to go bird watching, I hear. La Tomatina Bring it on! I haven't had this much fun since last time Kel told me off for stomping in puddles. Poor Bunyol. Aussies everywhere. I initially thought it would be very pushy and shovy, but everyone is in the festive spirit and ...

... think we headed out to the club sometime after 1am....I was thinking how ridiculously late it was to go out (knowing our flight was at 10am) but then I realized it's not ridiculous in Spain, that was always the norm when I lived here...just I've gotten old!!!!! I had to laugh....One thing I don't miss about Spain is that you can smoke EVERYWHERE (a dream for some of my smoking friends) but disgusting for me. We had a blast and I ...

... for a wonder. Barcelona was really a beautiful city. True, some areas were a little ******, where they hadn't bothered improving for the Olympics, which made the nice areas look just a little fake, but it was nice nonetheless. We had a couple of drinks and ended up in an Irish Bar somewhere. It was a pretty low key first night - me and Karim were knackered from no sleep the night before, and the others had had to sleep at Stanstead airport as well, so we ...

... I will spend here about 2.5 days and then off to Madrid where, once I am done, I will board my plane back to the states. It is sort of hard to believe that this is coming to an end. In less than 5, days I will be back among the "Americans" The way I look at it, I will be able to wear different clothes than the ones I have been wearing for the last 3 weeks. And that makes it somehow better, don´t ask, can´t quite understand it myself. Adios. Eternamente BARATIER