Barcelona

Meet Adi and Mike. Adi is from India. He is a VJ for the equivalent of vh1 over there and he just filmed a movie in London do he is taking some time to travel before he heads back. Mike is the kid we told you about in Rome. We met him in Prague and we keep bumping into him in this trip. Both awesome dudes and hilarious. You'll hear their names a lot in this post but I'll get back to the when we arrived.

Finally, we arrived in Barcelona and we were nothing but relieved. We planned this trip perfectly because there wasn't too much to see in Barcelona that we had to cram everything in. So we knew we were going to take our time, stay out late and not worry about seeing the sites like the past 5 weeks. The hostel was one of the best we have had. It was a little family from Argentina who started it up so it was really laid back. Great thing about this place too, it was packed with Americans which was really comforting. The picture on the left is the sun rising and the moon going down on the train ride over.
We went to the nearest pastry shop and picked up some really good sandwiches. Working on no sleep we just hung out with Mike and Adi. They can both play the guitar and sing so they just played some songs that we all knew like Soul to Squeeze, Free Fallin and all the good stuff.
We also met a couple girls from the Boston area were studying in Florence and they were with a bunch of other girls from all over the US. The 8 of us all went out to dinner at the pretty nice place and the food was OK. We had tapas, Sangria, wine and some other Spanish food. After dinner some of us split up and went our own ways, so the two of us went with Adi, Mike and two other girls to a bar and hung out there for the remainder of the night.
Next morning we took it real easy and woke up whenever we wanted. The last month we have been waking up between 7-8 so this was a treat. We watched Superbad with a bunch of people due to the fact it was pouring out. Which, I might add, is the only day it really rained our whole trip..we kind of took that for granted. We then went to the Sangria Famalia which was a wash because of how rainy it was...but hey, we tried doing something productive. It was Halloween so we expected to do something regardless if we dressed up or not. So, just like every Halloween all of us scratched the idea of dressing up and just went as super sexy Americans....ourselves....get it.
We went to a club right on the beach called Shoko. Not having costumes worked out great because only about 25% of the club were dressed up so we fit right in. The music was a lot better than the club we went to in Berlin. We could just imagine what this place would be like in the Summer. The back end of the club was all outside on the beach. This club was pretty high class too with hired dancers on platforms and VIP sections scattered around. Reminded of us of some Vegas clubs. We got back at about 4:00 AM but it was OK because we had nothing planned for the next day.
The next day had a lot better weather than we expected so we got out right away (like noon time) to go see the Guell Park, known for it's really good view of the whole city, mosaic dragons and celings and some other cool architecture. Mike came with. The view from the top of the hill was one of the best city views we have seen the whole trip. We went to the Sangira Familia once more to check it out and it was much better because it was nicer out. Reminded us of a huge drip castle that you used to make on the beach. The sculptures were insanely perfect all over the whole building. Pretty cool to see. After doing some walking around the city we went to the market and bought some food for dinner. It was a prett nice dinner. It was pasta americana with some bread and red wine. Made by Clint, Mike and myself. It was the best dinner we have had in Barcelona.

The 4 of us and 2 other girls from our hostel headed out to this club called "Razzmatazz," which was a huge warehouse type building with 5 different genres of music split up into huge rooms. The club opened at 1AM and the cover was about 15euro with a free drink included. This place was massive and could probably fit about 2500 people. Come 3:00am this place was shoulder to shoulder with people and it was bumpin with music we never really heard but we loved it regardless. Later on a band came out called "the presets" and they had about a 2 hour performance, and this wasn't your typical band. One guy on drums and another on keyboard who was also the singer. They played dance music too so it was something we haven't ever seen back in the States. We could go on with the stories but I rather not. Long story short, this was our best night of the trip and we felt like couldn't have done it any better. We got home at about 7:00am all in one piece and went to bed...then woke up at 9 and got our free breakfast. From that point on was a whole lot of nothing. We made dinner again that night because we didn't want to risk eating crappy food again.
The next morning we packed up our bags and headed to Madrid.