To the Barca!

Last week on Wednesday I had the great opportunity to visit the wonderful city of Barcelona. My friends Adam, Colin, and I headed out at 330am on a bus Wednesday morning to take us to the Shannon airport to catch a flight to Girona airport, and from there take an 1 hour bus ride down to Barcelona. The city was amazing! It is humongous, but still has the small town/small population feel. We never felt overwhelmed by the people whatsoever. Our hostel was right at the city centre, and roughly 100 meters from the famous Picasso museum. We walked everywhere, seeing the harbor, the beach, the Picasso Museum, the famous market la Boucateria, and of course as many Gaudi structures as possible, like the cathedral La Sangria Familia, his numerous houses, as well as the famed Gaudi Park. Overall Barcelona was a great GREAT town with much to see, and very nice people. The Main strip of Las Ramblas was most certainly interesting during the daytim, with a plethora of street performers, vendors and great cafes and such. We did a pretty good job sampling Spanish Catelonyan Culture, having tapas - small portion meals of various exotic foods - as well as ciesta - a long break of nap and food/wine in the afternoon. We spent a lot of time at the beach, relaxing and enjoying the Mediterranean sea and gorgeous warm weather!

The only tiny little problem with the trip, was that we narrowly missed our bus back to Girona on Friday morning, due to alarm time confusion... therefore we missed our flight back to Shannon. Unfortunate and stressful to say the least, along with a 75 euro 'stupid tax' to pay for our mistake to get back to Ireland. However, that meant we got to spend the rest of the day relaxing and seeing the city of Girona, which was a great time! We spent the day relaxing and recovering from our stressful morning (and late night out...). All in all, we made it back to Galway after spending the night in Dublin airport to catch a 630 bus back home - a long journey home, but a great experience overall, making this one of the top places we have ever visited.

Here are the photos from the trip.
Enjoy!

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