second times a charm

Our train to Barcelona was scheduled to leave at 1am and we arrived at this station well ahead of time. The train ride wasn't bad i snored the whole time and kept everyone awake but myself. I also fell asleep holding an open bottle of wine and dropped it all over the floor. After sleeping the majority of the trip, we arrive arrived in Barcelona at around 9am. Our hostel didn't allow us to check in until noon so we put our stuff in the luggage room and got to creepin around La Rambla. The hostel itself was unbelievable. it was right inside Plaza Real, THE party plaza on La Rambla. The name of the hostel was the Kabul Backpackers hostel, i highly recommend you stay there if you are ever in Barcelona. Everything was very clean and the the staff was great, and the common area and bar were awesome, i met a lot of really cool people. Friday we walked La rambla numerous times and then headed towards the beach. We didnt bring bathing suits so i decided if i was goign to spend 10 euro at a supermarket on a bathing suit, i was going to get the smallest most outrageous bathing suit that they had. i would have pictures but later that night Kaelyn deleted ALL the pictures from my camera. luckily i had a lot already on my computer so i only lost the ones from that day. The weather was great and the beach was packed, we walked the coast a bit it was a lot of fun. we headed back and bought some chocolate and bottles of wine and sat in the plaza just chillin drinkin wine. until the police came and told us that if we wanted to drink in the plaza we needed to buy it from a bar in the area and not a bottle from the super market. We stayed in the hostel until about 2am and then headed to the plaza to a club and stayed there till about 4am. It was just me Kaelyn, Marzi, and Katie that night as the rest of the people with us chose to go to a music festivale in Barcelona, i opted out because it was 70 euro and not really my taste in music, but the others said they had a fucking blast and were out till about 5:30am.



We woke up the next morning and headed to Segrada Familia, which is a giant temple designed by the famous artist and architect Antoni Guadi. I had been to Spain when i was like 14 or 15 but it was really cool to see the temple again, the architecture is simply amazing. After that we headed to Gaudi Park which i had been to before, but it was cool to experience it again. We then went home and got ready to go out for another night in Barcelona. The seafood there was awesome i had tons of Paella and little seafood critters. That night we stayed in the Hostel till about midnight this time we had all 11 of us, only 4 of us were staying at Kabul the rest were at 2 different hostels a ways away. We were hanging out with a kid we met from Sydney and met some guys who worked in Barcelona. They took us to this place called Ice bar. Everything was made of ice, down to the glasses. They gave you big fur coats, furry mittens, and a big rooskie hat. It was litetterally 23 degrees in there, we took a lot of good pictures. After that we headed home and While getting a piggy back ride, Kaelyn fell and got a concussion, mad props on that.





That sunday we missed our train that left at 7am....considering we went to bed at 6am it was hard to stay up. Everyone missed the train except for 2 people, but Kaelyn and i missed the next train at 8am and our only choice was to take the train at 10pm that night. It turned out to be a blessing because Kaelyn was feelings the effects of her conussion pretty bad, dizzy, puking all day etc. I did a bunch of walking around here and there as it was a nice day to be on the Rambla. We chilled all day in the common area after checking out and I met some fellows from Ireland that had a great story for me. They were at the music festival all weekened and the one kid was wasted at around 4 in the morning. He was walking around trying to find the exit and stumbled into the VIP area. The guard told him No, you must exit the other way and pointed to a spot nearly a mile away. Seeing as the kid had already walked around for 45 minutes wasted he was in no mood to walk that far. So he pulled a George Castanza and started grabbing his knee saying his knee was really messed up and he just wanted to exit to his friends car which was 50 feet away from him. Ok ok ok said the security guards who only spoke spanish as he fake limped around. They took him to wha the thought was the exit which turned out to be the medical area with paramedics. Keep in mind he was FAKING that his knee was hurt so he could go through and exit he wasnt supposed to. The paramedics begin to check him out and start performing all these tests and checking his reflexes and balance etc. They then proceed to take him into the ambulance. While in the ambulance, one of the paramedics pulls out a giant 6 inch needle which he intends to stick in the back of this kids knee. the guy freaks out saying no no no i just need a ride to the parking lot please i dont need a shot. This kid goes from leaving the festival to faking a knee injury that almost leads to a giant injection. So the staff drives him out to the parking lot and drop him off, but he doenst know where his friends car is so he has to fake limp for a mile and a half around the parking lot as the paramedics watch him to make sure hes ok. Funny story, i think George would have taken the injection though. All in all it was an AWESOME weekend, i absolutely fell in love with Barcelona. What a chill town, the nightlife was incredible the foot was awesome and i just felt relaxed to be there. We head to Madrid on wednesday and i dont know if i have any plans for this weekend, im trying to figure something out. I am maybe considering a trip Portugal but I kinda wanna stay in Madrid for the weekend to experience what is known as one of the most fun and engaging cities in Europe.



p.s. one of the girls we were with named Katie, tried to take a nap at 1am in my bed before we were headed to the clubs. My buddy Tom and I decided to go up and pick up the mattress and move it into the elevator while she was still sleeping. We moved her into the elevator and hit the floor 1 button. We ran downstairs and the door opened to 2 security guards saying what the fuck? as Katie woke up saying, where am I why am i sleeping in here??? I decided to snap a pic as you can see here: