Last Days in Barcelona and Madrid

Mollie:

So this will probably be the last blog about our trip. And, better yet, it will be short and sweet. Well maybe. We´ll see how ambitious I get.


So yesterday, Saturday, our plans were to go to the beaches of Sitges. Well that never happened. We decided that we were waaay to sick of the sun to spend a full day at the beach. Plus Amanda and I are pretty sure that our skin would have fallen off if we had tried to do so. We ended up splitting up because Eric wanted to go to the local beach for a bit and then check out a few things on his own.


Amanda and I really had a problem working up the ambition to do much of anything. We were rather tired and ended up sitting around the hostel trying to figure out what we wanted to do that day. When we finally left we decided we were going to hit up the markets, the beach (only for a bit though), and then go to Park Guell. We ended up going to the market/shopping area for awhile, but spent the entire time walking around like zombies. Amanda started talking about McDonalds and I was like thats a fabulous idea...I just want to sit in McDonalds!! We haven´t had air conditioning for the whole trip and McDonalds does...therefore we decided to go there and grab some lunch.

When we got there they had these little kiosks. You order your food there just using pictures , touch screen, etc. and then put your credit card in and then it gives you a little receipt with your number. Then there is an area you go and when the sign flashes your number you pick up your food. It was really quite cool. Amanda and I were rather impressed. It was also nice b-c the we didn´t have to try and mess with the whole foreign language part.

We ended up sitting in the McDonalds for about 2 hours. We were a little embarrassed that we spent so much time at McDonalds on one of our last days over here, but we seriously needed it. Amanda was going a little loopy. She kept saying really profound statements like..."I know that I know"....and..."I´m hungry, but I´m not hungry". Eventually we got up and hit the markets up again and then ventured out to Park Guell.

The Park was really cool and you have to go up like a gazillion (seriously) stairs to get to this place. The view of the city is phenomenal. We walked around there for awhile and then headed back to the hostel.

We joined up with our little group of friends and then went with a bunch of people from the hostel to a rather large Irish Bar and then after that to a Club.

This morning we woke up and headed to the train station to take our last train ride of the trip. We were in a bit of a hurry to check out and when we got to the train station i made the comment, "I feel like I left half my life in Barcelona, and I don´t even know it yet." Therefore Amanda then called me out on making such profound statements. We had a good time waiting for our train recalling the past few nights, the friends that we made, and their accents and funny little sayings they would say.

The train was called a bullet train b-c it is a really high speed train. I believe it goes like 200 miles an hour. We got to Madrid around 4 pm and got settled in to our little hostel. We then walked around and saw a few of the sights. We were planning on eating at the Oldest Restaurant in the World (or so it is claimed) but we couldn´t find it. Insteat we ate at a little restaurant on the street. It was delicious. We ended our trip by having a final meal of pizza (how couldnt we), Veal, and Paella. It was all very delicious.

Adios!