Today was an amazing day! (I will start with letting you know that I won´t be posting any pictures yet again, this time because I´m actually posting from a computer in the hostel lobby instead of my phone because I´ve been getting tired of always writing my posts out on my phone.)
Anyway, today I played hooky and didn´t go to the bus tour of the city with my group, instead going out again with my friend who is living here currently and her friend from Germany that she met here at the school she is studying at. It was so fun and I definitely got a very different feel for Barcelona than the rest of my tour group. We first wandered around for a little bit and then went to see La Sagrada Familia, a church designed by the famous Gaudi that is still being worked on. It is actually very gorgeous and they are hoping to have it finished by 2026, so I guess I´ll be coming back in about 10 years to see the completed cathedral. After looking at it from the outside we went to a few different Plazas and then stopped in a market to grab some bread, cheese, and plums for lunch. We actually went to this gorgeous park (also designed by Gaudi) to eat our lunch and it was very peaceful and fun (until we got attacked by pidgeons because I accidentally dropped some cheese, whoops.) After lunch and wandering around the park we went to meet up with another friend of my friend´s who actually gives really cool tours of Barcelona. So we caught up with him and he let us join his tour of the Old City in Barcelona, which was really cool. We got to see where the King and Queen of Spain lived during Columbus´ time and we saw the door that he would have gone to when he was trying to get funding from them. We also saw this really creepy, but cool, place where the Spanish Inquisition was carried out. The creepy thing about it was that the place where the "judges" would stand was very high up in the room and you had to completely bend your head backwards to see it. You really have to be there to understand, but it is just really crazy to think about the poor people that had to stand there and look upwards at the people that were going to decide if they were going to be killed for not being Christian or given a chance to convert. It was about this point in the tour when it began to rain and then it started to downpour and so we all ran for cover in a little pub. It was actually really fun; there were a few of us from the United States, a guy from England, a guy from Ireland, two girls from Australia, a couple from Germany, and my friend´s friend who was our guide. We all got some drinks (I got a hot chocolate because I was freezing) and we waited out the storm and played some fun games and got to know each other. After the rain stopped we continued our tour and ended in what was the port of Barcelona, but is now just a fancy marina. Here we went our seperate ways and my friend and I went to H+M so that I could get a new bikini top because the one I brought with me doesn´t fit and tomorrow I am going paddle-boarding. After we found a top we went to see this amazing fountain that is gorgeous and changes colors and everything to music (I got some really good videos) and met up with another friend of my friend (she knows so many people here!). We all went for dinner and then I got on the metro and headed back to my hostel. Actually it was kinda cool, while waiting for the metro a girl and her mother hesitantly asked me if I spoke English (which of course I responded with enthusiasm that I do) and then they asked for directions to a Plaza that I actually was in earlier today so I was able to send them in the right direction.
Well, I´m going to head to bed, I´ve got a big day tomorrow on the beach!
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