Barcelona - nudey beaches, hookers,& shooter bars
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Barcelona,
Catalonia,
Spain and Canary Islands
Thursday, July 2, 2009
WOW this place is sweet but we haven´t gone too far from the hostel...we,re staying in a hostel called KABUL, its right off the main street here which is called la ramblas.....its the biggest party hostel, by the time we arrived in barcelona at like 1130 PM (there was alot of confusion with the trains getting here, and so we wound up taking like 6 different trains instead of 2 and were travelling for 15 hours...oh well) but we got to the hostel, and it was just PACKED with people. 2 euro pints, which is like 3 dollar pints so not bad at all. Anyway, we met up with another guy from contiki...he was supposed to meet us at 930 but obviously with the trains we couldnt make it and LUCKIL we found some crappy wifi at one train station so sean emailed him on facebook from his itouch and he got it...LUCKY....so we emailed him once we got there, and he got it last minute, and showed up at our hostel and we partied til 5 Am....it was a monday night but oooh wells we found a sweet club just a 2 minute walk from our hostel...it was awesome soo fun,, but drinks were expensive, so we went onto the street and bought 1 euro ccans of beer from these guys that walk around on the streets just selling it. Then I got drunk and hungry and bought a cheap sandwich from another street vendor for a euro who looked EXACTLY like russel peters and kept singing weird songs from the 80s....so we all danced to his weird ass songs and he loved us...so i bought a samosa from him to. Why not, i was drunk and hungry. It was cold...but delicious (at the time)....then all these north african hookers started coming out and we didnt know this one girl was one, and she kept staring at us, so we´re like...what do u want? And she grabs seans junk and goes ¨I WANT THIS BABY¨...I was like BITCH THATS MY BOYFRIEND!!! Shes like Oh madam im sorry....then starts grabbing at daves shirt and goes how about him? Im like NO HES MY BOYFREIND TOO!!! So she left. There were many more after this, but she was the most ...agressive. so that was night 1...
.slept in til like 11 the next morning, then headed to the main train station to book our trains for all areas in spain...we waited in line for an hour to book them but its done now so its ALL GOOD. The rest of the day we basically just exlpored la ramblas, found a really sweet market just down the street with fresh fruit juices so I got a pina colada fruit joice which was delicious annnd then went back to the hostel...you see, the night before a drunken aussy cowboy had told us that there were u2 tickets for the next night (this day) and we thought he was cracked out cause he said they were 30 euro....so we asked the ppl at the hostel where we could get some, but they told us they were all sold out...LUCKILY 2 guys that were staying at the hostel overheard us and happeend to get ditched by a group of 10 and were stuck with 10 extra 95 euro tix....but that was too much for us....so they gave us 2 for 95 euro!!! Good seats too!! So we went to U2 BABY!! It was AMAZING. It was held in a stadium that holds over 100,000 ppl, the biggest one in all of europe. HOLY SHITlike sooo big. SnowPatrol opened nfor thme and man theyre fantastic too....but U2was just something outta this world...like literally had this massive round screen around the stage (but above the stage obviously) and on it they webcammed with the international space station which is located in the sky.......just amaznig, and it was legit, it was cutting out and stuff, and tey were floating around, and having a converstaion with U2....and on one part of the screen it was being interpreted(typed out)in spanish and theyd like backspace and stuff when they typed something wrong, like it was just sooooo cool!! then there was a presentation on AIDS on the screen and they came back out and sang one love one life or whatever. ....what was weird is that they screwed it up, and i could kinda tell something was off....and then bono goes.....Ok guys, just stop the music, just stop....and they all stopped...and he goes, ok and VERSE...and they picked it back up...i was really weird but a really cool thing to see at the same time..just the most amazing concert...and he had a spanish jersey made for him that said bono on the back, and said this was the only city hed be doing that because they have UNICEF on the front and not just the name of some random company, but a charity...it was like soo touchign like it was just amazing. It was a round stage in the middle of the stadium with like plateforms branching out and amazing lites....Just WOW like WOW. its no wonder theyre such legends. Soo that was our night and was it evver an awesome one!!
Now, on to the best day of the year...CANADA DAY!!! Happy belated canada day everyone by the way!! We started the day off by shopping our asses off. Awesome. Spent soo much money but got So much stuff because by chance, july 1st is like theyre boxing day or black friday....so all the clothes that were usually 30 or 50 or more euro were eiether half price or less, or like 5-10 euro....so needless to say, i threw out some stuff and just replcaed the shit out of it. I fond a really cute little souvenier for mom, got myself 2 colors of contact lenses....light grey and a saphire turquoisey color....new shoes, a few new shirts, a couple dresses....a necklace...yup, gotter done. Sean got a whole bnch of new stuff from his new favorite store....H AND M!!! Love that place holy crap like they were having a 5 euro sale, so got sooo much stuff (both of us did!)....Anyway, after we were shopped out we came back to the hostel for the free supper they serve everynight...I had a chorizo sausage dish and he had pasta with tomato sauce...it was acually really good....Then we picked up a bottle of vodka and ALMOST got to business when I realized I had to call Cammy to sing her the reel she usually plays at contests cause she forgot how it went, but she wasnt home so I talked to dad....but before that I had to goto reception to ask how to use the phone, and when i got there, there was this really messed up drooling irish dude...im like WTF....so then I go back to get on the phone, and he comes up and starts hitting buttons....then calls me American, sings a song he named Happy Canadia Day, and said if I didnt give him my new ring, he wouldnt leave me alone...but like just kdding around, said I could have it back when I was off the phone...so im like BAH fine,so that was all good....so i went to the room where him and his buddies were and theyre all really nice and really drunk hahaha and half canadians, but he´s gone MISSING. So they look for him in the bathroom where hed clearly gone but he wasnt there either...noone knows where he went...so im like FUCK whatever, so i went back to my room to meet up with Sean, and I tell him and this girl from edmonton about what happened. But also, everyone in that room was predrinking, so the 3 of us head there with vodka in hand, and lo and behold they greet us with ÄRE YOU SINGLE¨and theyre very own version of Happy Canadia Day. Then the messed up guy walks in, grabs out vodka and says he gets a shot and i get my ring...so we like pour it down his throat and he just hicchups and keeps singing...ahahahahahha. Then this one dude that reminds me of Travis Brewster says...hey ladies wanna see how many pushups i can do? Noone replys....so he just drops and does 20 and bows. Like you go buddy. ! So anyway then us and 3 other canadians head out to this shooter bar called CHAPETOS...WOW. Its teeny tiny, lke the size of my kitchena nd living room but good lord...there are THOUSSANDS of shots to choose from, all only 2 euros ....so we did about 10 wihtin about 45 minutes....OOPS....We also all did the infamous MONACA LEWINSKI SHOT....where they pour a beer through a dildo, and well, thats that. it was pretty interesting, and lots of blackmail pictures cause we ALL did them...even sean. there was one called the b urnt marshmallow that astes like a REALLY strong marshmallow...then they light the bar on fire and you actually get marshmallows on a stick to roast! Theres ones that you take out of half an orange peel. it was sooo fun! anyway, halfway back to the hostel i had to sit down, and we ended p having to take a cab the 3 blocks back to the hostel...again, oops. Checked out the nxt morning but then went back to bed til 1:00, got yelled at by the maid so just went to the beach, (ths is the 2nd now), then caught our overnight train to granada. we thought the seats would be empty so we didnt book a bed, but the seats were full and ddint recline, so it was a very long 12 hour train ride. Which also involved an insane man in our coach that insisted on slamming on the window and sniging at the top of his lungs...who got screamed at by security atleast 10 times in the first 2 hours....it was a loooong train ride. BUT we´re here now, havent done anything YET, but I have to go so we can get seeing this place!!
