Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Barcelona

This past weekend we had an excursion to Barcelona. I was so excited. I heard from so many people that it was beautiful and that they really enjoyed it there. Well I have no idea what those people were talking about because I did not like Barcelona very much.

It began as a really difference experience because I had to ride on a bus without the forspro program. All the people I sat with were spanish and spoke no english at all, but they were so friendly and really wanted to talk to me. We had to use my dictionary so many times, but we managed to carry on a conversation for the whole 8 hour trip. And when I got to Barcelona one of the men I was sitting with was nice enough to help me find the hotel I had to go to.

The next day we took a tour of the city and it really wasn't very exciting. They are so religious there that we couldn't see alot of the sites because we were showing our shoulders. Even worse the tour ended suddenly in the middle of the city. They didnt tell us this was going to happen or even give us maps so we could figure out how to get back to the hotel. We were smart and went to a hotel in the plaza and found the museum of picasso that we really wanted to go. That night we went out to this main street that has alot of bars on it. It was crazy and filled with tourist. Men were touching us and saying really rude things to try to flirt with us I guess. We ended up finding a place and stopping for some wine. While we were there some men from Poland decided to flirt with me by buying me 6 roses and coming over to our table to sit with us. I had no idea what they were saying, one spoke spanish/polish, one spoke english/polish and the other spoke only polish. We hurried up and rushed out of there.

The next day we went to the beach all day. We were really shocked when we noticed a lot of women with no tops on. The beach was crazy packed. Heres a pick of us at the beach.

The main thing I didn't like about Barcelona was the smell. It smelled like sewage everywhere we went it was crazy. Also everything was so expensive because there was so much tourism there.

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