Barcelona!!!

Today was our first day in Barcelona!! We got in last night and after some confusion we finally found our hostel… I will show you how the entrance looks like and you tell me if you see ANY sign of a hostel.

The address of the place was 369 Diagonal and that was also the name of the hostel... so yeah, we decided to push the button even though it didn’t say anything about a hostel and then the guy was like “Oh, good, you found it!!”



Anyway, the hostel itself is pretty funny/cute… our room is really really small, it’s like a little dorm room. I’d say the whole place is kinda like the common room/dormitories in Harry Potter, at least the feel of it. It’s also very orange so I imagine it must be a cousin of the Gryffindor house.

This morning we went to Antonio Gaudi’s Casa Mila (La Pedrera), which is a few blocks away.
The structure and everything was awesome, but the coolest part was the attic and the roof… The attic was made of like special parabolic arches designed to keep it cool… compared to the rest of the house, it felt like the attic had AC, when usually it’s the opposite!! I wonder why we don’t just use this design in all attics, everywhere.
The roof was awesome so I took some panoramic pictures on my camera, which turned out pretty nice!! Some of those things are chimneys and some are ventilation things.




After touring Casa Mila we went to check out Gaudi’s other famous building, Casa Batllo… it’s very pretty from the outside but the entrance was a little pricey so we didn’t go in… the whole street has a row of cool mansion apartment things designed by different people.

We got lunch (fanta, bread, paella con maríscos, a pork kebab with fries, and café for 8.95 € - the menú del dia is always the way to go!!), then ventured to the metro, which is really easy, and went down to the beaches that were made for the ’92 Olympics. The beaches had nice sand and everything but felt a little too man-made for me.

Somewhere further down the coast are the nude beaches but this one was top-less/regular. And no, I did not go top-less! Then after lots of wandering around and kinda not knowing where we were, we took the metro back to the hostel & got dinner at this little locals bar where I got the best sandwich ever. Now I’m showered and clean and very tired.