Sunday, June 27, 2010

Thursday, June 24th

This morning we packed up and left for Barcelona around 8! I'm really beginning to enjoy our bus rides, they are long but very fun! We watched a movie (Cell 211) for Spanish class and had a couple nice stops for food, etc...

We arrived in Barcelona around 5 p.m. and checked into the Hotel Lleo. Almost immediately, we went on a walking tour of La Rambla, which is the major walking street for people in Barcelona. It's beautiful: there are two small streets for cars surrounding a giant median in the middle where there are tables from the various restaurants, vendors, and lots and lots of street performers. Here are a few pictures from our walk:







After the tour, we were free for the night. We took a quick nap and then got ready for dinner. We went to a restaurant called Quinze Nits, which is very cool: it's really delicious and quite fancy, but the chefs are all students, so it's really reasonably priced! I got a mozarella and tomato pesto salad and spinach and cheese ravioli, followed by an AMAZING chocolate brownie! We got to sit out at a table on La Plaza Reial which was just beautiful. We got to people watch for the entire three hour length of our meal! Here are some pictures:





After dinner, we just went home to the hotel (it was almost 1 a.m.!) and went to sleep to get ready for the next day, which was going to be pretty long!

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