I woke at 10:30 and let Eden sleep in. Went for bfast at the travel bar - sat outside and wrote a postcard as I listened to a guy playing harmonica on the corner. It's a bit cooler today so I returned to the hostel to change and take care of some bookings.
At the hostel I was sitting next to some cute guys from London who were face timing their friend very loudly but they are pretty cool. They introduced themselves last night as our new dorm mates and I woke to find that they sleep in tiny black briefs...I won't be making any other comments at this time.
I walked around as it was lightly drizzling and by the time I got back Eden was waiting out in the lobby of our hostel eating some of the snacks we saved from bfast the other day. We then checked in at the travel bar for eden's sunglasses, which she lost, before grabbing some falafel at a hole in the wall near our hostel and walked down la rambla to sit at the feet of the lions of this huge monument that I will look up the name of later.
After getting way lost the other day on foot in search of La Sagrada (but did I mention that we accidentally stumbled upon casa Batillo? So it was all good) we decided to take a shot at the metro to get to El Parc Guell, a garden/house built by Gaudi. We were pretty excited when it took us only ten minutes to get across town but the feeling didn't last long, as we realized we were going the long way around the park. This was the point at which Eden and I decided not to trust road signs anymore and put an even greater effort into deciphering our maps. The only problem is, neither of us are very good with maps - but I have noticed a vast improvement over the last three days. We walked uphill for a ways but were rewarded with views of the city that extended all the way to the ocean. It was an overcast day and we could see some barges on the water. Our tour guide Victoria told us yesterday that Barcelona is actually quite a small city to be a capital and I can believe it when we are above it.
The parc was pretty cool - incredibly crowded. I couldn't even get a picture of the famous iguana that is sold as a refrigerator magnet all along la rambla. People had to settle for taking their picture with several other posing tourists in the shot because it was so crowded.
I definitely liked all of the mosaic work and the royal blue inside of la casa de guardia. It was relatively simple compared with the rest of his designs; the placards did not lie.
I definitely liked all of the mosaic work and the royal blue inside of la casa de guardia. It was relatively simple compared with the rest of his designs; the placards did not lie.
As always, the way back was so much shorter. We did not listen to the signs this time, which we saw were actually directing us away from the parc.
This is the emo-effect in my new camera app. Eden picked it out.
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