TALES FROM BARCELONA

Remember how this blog focuses on bringing to you the best hotels, restaurants and experiences in top destinations worldwide?

Yeah, forget about it for a second.

This post is about Barcelona, but even more about two girls in Barcelona.

We didn’t stay in fancy hotels, ate the best food Spain could offer us, or meticulously explored every alley of the city.

Instead, we somehow survived on tapas and sangria, ended up sleeping in one of the most dreadful facilities -no, even hostel is too elegant- I’ve ever stayed in, and wasted our time laughing like idiots at the beach.

And it was one of my best trips ever.

 

I was having a Nicole Richie obsessed period of my life, wearing glasses that covered the 70% of my face and ridiculous bandanas, and blowing wages on second hand Balenciagas which I had to resell anyway later on to buy food …

It was also one of my first trips, so we had cleverly thought of booking us in THE cheapest hostel in town, and leave the rest of the budget for shopping.

My early 20ies were a disaster.

 

Based in our prison pension on La Rambla we briefly explored the “Barri Gotic” the Gothic quarter, spent most of the time grilling at the Barceloneta Beach, visited the most famous attractions such as the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batlò and la Pedrera, and found even time to visit the Park Guell, which lies a bit outside the city center.

 

Risking in loosing all of you readers, here some very poor and laughable pictures and facts about Barcelona.

I guess I will have to come back someday

corners of the splendid “Barri Gotic”, part of the old town of Barcelona

street food and drinks

 

a dome in Park Guell, the park famous for its crazy architecture

a Bakery shop near La Rambla

and me, wearing a dreadful outfit composed of:

the above mentioned “Nicole Richie look” necessary accessories

a questionable (not to be vulgar) cardigan of 3 sizes more

umm my brother’s shorts?

rubber boots, in a sunny spanish summer day

…

the infamous Casa Batlò and its splendid details

views of “casa Milà” also known as “la Pedrera”

Aaah another shot of these marvelous outfits..

Seriously, what was I thinking..???

mmm I guess you’ve seen better pictures of the Sagrada Familia …..

 

the Church of Sagrada Familia, incomplete and work i progress still nowadays, together with Casa Batlò, Casa Milà and Park Guell are all architectural masterpieces by Antoni Gaudì, a spanish modernist architect, and in my opinion a undisputed genius.

 

well we did try at least a paella in a restaurant once…

.. before switching back to noodles on the beach …

Barceloneta Beach

me and my best party/travel mate

this is the only shot of our hostel I dare sharing… 

… and this is how our trip ended..

Wearing all of our clothes after a fight unpleasant conversation with the check in lady

who clearly never had a weekend abroad with her bestie ….

 

This wasn’t for sure one of the best posts of this blog, but for a long time this has been the funniest trip of my life, until some years later me and the same blonde gal flew to Stockholm together, and that still ranks as the funniest trip of my life

To travel is one of the first things that bring joy in my life, but people, they are the most important above all of the others!

Be grateful for the people that surround and love you, the are your life!