Voila
Made it to Girona from Rome meanwhile met a Tiawanese girl who is still living in Barcelona.Some wise tips on where to eat what to do and all and the main things.
She took me around in a metro got me to grips with the city.T10 pass with which u can travel any where in the metro 10 times from approx 6 euros was very useful tool courtesy - Natalia.I had a small map to my hostel based on which Natalia told me to get off at a particular station .I did as told
But all that direction i had was for La Ciutat Hotel but i was in LaCiutat Hostel :).So was searching for a non existant road around the station in the dodgee part of town . Luckly met a spanish girl who advised me to go back to the station and have a look at the map rather than randomly roaming around in this seedy part of town at 1 am .
Called the Guy who could only speak Catalan and Spanish .So i could only guess the name of the station Juanic which is Kuanic in catalalon or spanish so next 5 mins where spent around asking people where Juanic was as suppose to Kuanic.One such smartian could see that i was from elsewhere and directed me towards Juanic and corrected my pronouciations.Turns out that i was lucky enough not to be mugged that night , What else can be jucier than a traveller with a back pack and camera and some money !!!!!
Finally found the Road ,Allegra de Delta and then the hostel .Arrived ther at around 2 AM so my mind was just looking at having a nice beer and sleep .Fortunately barcelona never sleeps so was able to honour my wish Tapas and Beer (cerveza) at 3 AM. Cost 6 euros beat tht!!!!
:)
Where i stayed
La Ciutat Hostel
Address: Alegre de Dalt, 66 ,Barcelona 08024, Spain
Telephone: +34 93 213 03 00
Email: laciutat@nnhotels.es
Website: http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/spain/barcelona/4184/
Superb hostel free internet and fantablous breakfast .Honestly u can skip lunch if u have the capacity to stuff in early in the morning.Met some brazilians here they were happy when i told them that i was visiting brazil in 3 months (yes i will write about it)
Bonus Free internet .Altough they had only one computer
Next day fresh Start
Hit the road with a map and Metro pass in hand .Loads of tourists in barcelona no matter when u go !!
Las ramblas is cool - Beware of ur wallets.
But being a gaudi city Park Guel, Sangrada Familia and tibidabo were amazing.
PS dont ignore Tididabo try to get there before the tourist buses 10ish to get a superb view of Barcelona uninteruppted.
A govt hospital and Sangrada famlia
Came bak to the hostel .Ohh yeeh i didnt tell u , for first time in this expedition did i experience bordem becs there was no one in my dorm , little did i know it was all going to explode the next day.
Came out and met an american travel pair .They just came in so we all went in for dinner out turns out that the hostel is a bit out of the average tourists reach which is good news by the way.
Went to this smoky tapas bar with no english menu when we asked the owner for menu he pointed us at a spanish board which we didnt have a clue . He could understand us so he tried to tell us Sit i will get things for u 5 euros ahead superb tapas and beer .The same thing would cost us 8 or 10 euros in las ramblas.
31st night
This night i will remember for a long time in my life partly becs on how it turned out and partly becs its right there with my crazy nights
Here are the sequence of events.
Came back after walking all over barcelona so was quiet tired .Started chatting with some indian americans whiling away time.ENTER crazy french people calling every one for a party in their room in french .I
being basic french pandit went up and answered in French enquired
Waves Parc Guel
what was happening there .He was ecastic first becs i spoke french second i was indian .Turns out the whole groups of french armature rugby players and some nice girls where from small towns and many of them didnt even speak english and not met a proper indian so i was a celebrity piece for some time .
Next whole night i travelled and partied with them first in the hostel and then in town, Loads of drinks kepts rolling in .The funny thing is becs i was the lucky indian guy(as i was known i didnt have to pay for the drinks the whole night). The party carried onnnn and onnn lots of white mischefs and smirnoffs later.The french boys started flirting with random girls on the street sadly i realised it was 3am (shit ) and i had to catch the plane at 10 So had to say a real sober good bye and off i went with loads of crazy people to catch the metro.
Market and TibidaboooShe took me around in a metro got me to grips with the city.T10 pass with which u can travel any where in the metro 10 times from approx 6 euros was very useful tool courtesy - Natalia.I had a small map to my hostel based on which Natalia told me to get off at a particular station .I did as told
But all that direction i had was for La Ciutat Hotel but i was in LaCiutat Hostel :).So was searching for a non existant road around the station in the dodgee part of town . Luckly met a spanish girl who advised me to go back to the station and have a look at the map rather than randomly roaming around in this seedy part of town at 1 am .
Called the Guy who could only speak Catalan and Spanish .So i could only guess the name of the station Juanic which is Kuanic in catalalon or spanish so next 5 mins where spent around asking people where Juanic was as suppose to Kuanic.One such smartian could see that i was from elsewhere and directed me towards Juanic and corrected my pronouciations.Turns out that i was lucky enough not to be mugged that night , What else can be jucier than a traveller with a back pack and camera and some money !!!!!
Finally found the Road ,Allegra de Delta and then the hostel .Arrived ther at around 2 AM so my mind was just looking at having a nice beer and sleep .Fortunately barcelona never sleeps so was able to honour my wish Tapas and Beer (cerveza) at 3 AM. Cost 6 euros beat tht!!!!
:)
Where i stayed
La Ciutat Hostel
Address: Alegre de Dalt, 66 ,Barcelona 08024, Spain
Telephone: +34 93 213 03 00
Email: laciutat@nnhotels.es
Website: http://www.hostelbookers.com/
Superb hostel free internet and fantablous breakfast .Honestly u can skip lunch if u have the capacity to stuff in early in the morning.Met some brazilians here they were happy when i told them that i was visiting brazil in 3 months (yes i will write about it)
Bonus Free internet .Altough they had only one computer
Next day fresh Start
Hit the road with a map and Metro pass in hand .Loads of tourists in barcelona no matter when u go !!
Las ramblas is cool - Beware of ur wallets.
But being a gaudi city Park Guel, Sangrada Familia and tibidabo were amazing.
PS dont ignore Tididabo try to get there before the tourist buses 10ish to get a superb view of Barcelona uninteruppted.
A govt hospital and Sangrada famlia
I am not a fan of modern or abstract art but Seeing Gaudi taking Inspiration from nature and combining it in his buildings is amazing. Never have i been impressed about neo modern art(like i would like to call it) like this city.There is something there in this city which i could connect to .Been here just 2 days and i get the impression that if i ever live any other place in this world it would be barcelona(well i have not visited mabut still).People are cool the weather is great ,Great beach
and superb food and a never ending night life.
and superb food and a never ending night life.
Came out and met an american travel pair .They just came in so we all went in for dinner out turns out that the hostel is a bit out of the average tourists reach which is good news by the way.
Went to this smoky tapas bar with no english menu when we asked the owner for menu he pointed us at a spanish board which we didnt have a clue . He could understand us so he tried to tell us Sit i will get things for u 5 euros ahead superb tapas and beer .The same thing would cost us 8 or 10 euros in las ramblas.
31st night
This night i will remember for a long time in my life partly becs on how it turned out and partly becs its right there with my crazy nights
Here are the sequence of events.
Came back after walking all over barcelona so was quiet tired .Started chatting with some indian americans whiling away time.ENTER crazy french people calling every one for a party in their room in french .I
being basic french pandit went up and answered in French enquired
Waves Parc Guel
what was happening there .He was ecastic first becs i spoke french second i was indian .Turns out the whole groups of french armature rugby players and some nice girls where from small towns and many of them didnt even speak english and not met a proper indian so i was a celebrity piece for some time .
Next whole night i travelled and partied with them first in the hostel and then in town, Loads of drinks kepts rolling in .The funny thing is becs i was the lucky indian guy(as i was known i didnt have to pay for the drinks the whole night). The party carried onnnn and onnn lots of white mischefs and smirnoffs later.The french boys started flirting with random girls on the street sadly i realised it was 3am (shit ) and i had to catch the plane at 10 So had to say a real sober good bye and off i went with loads of crazy people to catch the metro.
First time probably it hit me as to how much alchol was in my blood as i stood thinking where i was and how to get home .Fortunately i had just about enough sense to make it to the hostel In slow motion :)
SOme more wishes later work up early breakfast and after final farewell to the french troop I took the Bus back to Girona trough the Catalyana square with a slight headache.
Rite onwards to cold cold england where i have to make more money for my next trip to S america :)
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