Day Nineteen: Barcelona

I am not 100 percent sure why, but me and Ethan have been so tired, sleeping in every day. Even when we haven't been drinking as much! I guess we are preparing ourselves for the parties on the guided tour. So we got up and decided to find food on the beach. So we started walking with empty stomachs. As we walked down farther and farther, the more confused we got. It was just highway, to then find out that below our hostel is just a huge shipping habour with no beach nearby. When we finally pulled up google Maps, we realized that we were 2 hours walk away from the beach. But whatever, that's what you do here. So we keep going and firm on the idea that we will eat at the beach. Walking up Hill makes it so much harder when u are so hungry! On our journey over, we went over a hill, which we didn't realize had a fantastic view of the city, and a fantastic view of the Sagrada Familia, which truly towers over everything else. I have never gotten goose bumps, just looking at a building before. But it was truly spectacular. And we could barely see it! At this point, we realized we it was already almost 2, and we hadn't eaten or gotten to the beach, so we changed tactics and decided to go start to the Sagrada Familia because we really didn't want to miss it. On the way, we stopped for food at a random stop we past. And finally decided to try paella. It was amazing too! Probably tied for the best meal of the trip so far, tied with the late night random meal in lisbon. While sitting and eating, we started looking to see if we get online tickets to skip the line to then find out we couldn't get tickets at all. We looked at everything, even third-party companies. The only thing available was a ticket for 60 euros per person... a lot of money. So we decided to figure this place out tomorrow, and we head start for the beach. Which was still a 40-minute walk away. Walking in the sun did help a lot. It's been 18 days for me without any solid, warm summer day. Getting to the beach was a long time coming. It was very hot and very beautiful, we bought some overpriced beers and sat on the sand and took it all in. There were a stupid number of beach vendors, though, and they would not leave you alone. If you said anything, they would attach to you. One guy said 1 moijito for 7€ and we managed to get 2 for 8€ with extra alcohol (still not a lot of alcohol), and another was trying to sell 2 cans of beer for 4€ we kept fighting him saying we weren't interested, he only had 3 beers and ended up coming down saying he would get another and do 4 for 5€. But we didn't want to give money for a beer he would have to leave to get, so we said no once again. 30 minutes later, he came back with 4 beers and offered us the same deal, so we did take it. It was very nice just to relax and hang out on the beach. Afterward, we just headed back to the hostel and got some meat to add to the free vegetarian meal. It was sweet potato, so I was a little of my league, but I ended up eating 2 portions because he refuses to eat cauliflower. I did enjoy it. I just wish they had meat. We do get hungry walking all day. Afterward, we just had a couple beers and chilled in their common area to the point where I just fell asleep for a while and crawled back to my bed for a good night's sleep.Read more