Park Guell

My favorite part of the Barcelona trip was Park Guell. It is located quite a ways outside of the city and up a giant hill. We climbed up a little hill on top of the big hill to get a great view of the entire city. Then, we went to Park Guell, which was designed by Antoni Gaudi to be a gated community for the rich and famous of Barcelona, but it was a complete fail because none of the rich wanted to live so far from the city center. He did actually complete a couple of the houses and one of them is the top one. I really like his architecture because it really is one of a kind. After the checking out the park, we climbed up the mountain further to find a place to eat our dinner and watch the sunset.

After the sunset, a few of us went to see Avatar in 3D because we had a flight at like 630, so our bus to the airport was at 330 am. All four of us fell asleep during the movie, so we basically paid to take a nap. After the movie we just chilled in the theater forever and everyone just left it was so great.

Overall, Barcelona was a great trip!

Barcelona day 2

After the football stadium, we went to a couple of plazas and explored a lot of things, including the famous Gothic quarters in the center of the city where the Cathedral is located. After that we went to the beach. After the beach we started our way up to a park and saw some multi0colored building. I have no idea what it is for, but it looked cool lol.

FC Barcelona!

The first thing we did on our second day in Barcelona was go to the football stadium of the best team in Spain, FC Barcelona. This was an awesome experience, because not only was the stadium incredible and massive, but the history in the museum could not be matched.

Barcelona

We found 5 euro flights from Sevilla to Barcelona or so we thought. It seems like all of my travels so far start out with it being an adventure to find the hostel and this was no exception. First of all, this five euro flight took us to Reus, an airport that is a 1.5 hour bus ride outside of Barcelona. The bus we got on did not have enough seats for everyone, so a few of the people that I went with had to sit in the aisle of the bus the whole way.

Once we got into Barcelona, we still had a ways to go. There was a reason that our hostel was so cheap, it was really far outside the city, we were up a huge hill in some park. The first pic is of us walking up the road to our hostel.

After we got settled into our room, we went to explore the city. The first place that we went was to the Sagrada Familia, or the cathedral that was designed by Antoni Gaudí in 1915, but is still under construction. This is due to some rule of the Catholic church that certain basilicas can only be paid for by money given at mass, so 90 years later, they are still struggling to fund it. A Japanese man visited the church and fell in love with if, offering to pay the rest of the cost, but the church could not accept.

We then walked around Barcelona and saw the Casas de Gaudi, or the houses of Gaudi. He was a very famous architect in Barcelona and he designed some very unique buildings. The third picture is one of his houses. He designed everything, including the furniture of these buildings. After seeing these, we walked down the main street of Barcelona and went to a huge market.

Next, we chilled down by the port (fourth pic) for awhile before going to the fountain show. This fountain show was incredible! It was about a half hour long or so and the water and colors went along with various songs that they played. The show is every hour, so we actually stayed for a second show and watched it again because we were so impressed.

RAIN!

I am going to take this moment to vent a little bit about how rainy it has been in Sevilla since I have been here. It has rained in the last month more than it usually does in a year here. I actually chose Sevilla because it is warm and dry and just really nice weather. It's kinda funny because my senora says about every day that it never rains here just makes me mad haha. I just cannot wait until the weather gets better because I am soooo sick of having lazy days inside, I want to explore!