Tuesday, December 7, 2010

I ♥ Barcelona

The weather is clear, sunny and 60. 

It's perfect.

As yesterday was a random holiday and most other things were closed, we shopped for the afternoon. Luckily, our hotel isn't too far from the main street. 

Our hotel is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.


Today, we had decided that we would do the Fat Tire Bike Tour. We followed the directions from the website to the plaza (after finally purchasing Metro tickets which is a whole other story) but there was absolutely nothing that said Fat Tire once we arrived. We asked several police men, each of whom sent us to a different bike rental company. After 30 minutes of searching, we found the office down a back alley and were told that a guide would meet us in the plaza in a few minutes. 

The guide that met us in the plaza ended up not being the one to take us on the tour. 
Our guide's name was Meringue (or something close to that). He was a character.


We all learned a lot about his personal life. I'll leave it at that. In our group were an Australian couple, an older couple from California, two American students who were studying in Milan, and a professor from some small college in Philly. 

It was awesome to ride around in the sunny weather all day and hear everyone's travel stories from all over the world.  

We ended the tour in a tapas bar. We had something they called "summer wine" which was almost like Sangria but not quite. The tapas were interesting, considering that we couldn't read what most of them were. I don't think I want to know what most of them were, but some were very delicious!

We shopped down the main street on the way back to the hotel. In one super cute store, called Friday's Project, they were playing some very interesting music. If you're in for some culture shock, look up a song called Bilingual. We decided that they didn't really know what the song was saying since it was in English.

Now, we're off to a football match.... FC Barcelona vs. Rubin Kazan!

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