Ok so after having such a ridiculously hard day yesterday, day #2 in Barcelona was bound to be much better.
We took our time getting up. Holiday inn=American=continental breakfast! yay!! Of course, we had to smuggle food up for our illegal guest ally, but it went fairly smooth all in all. By the time the three of us showered and ate it was lunch time. We figured we would be frugal and go to the grocery store to grab a snackish lunch. Peanuts, water, and fruit was about the best we could do. So we got on the train with that. (this time lakshmi and I knew what we were doing, and got to barcelona fail-free.)
The renfe (train) took us right to las ramblas, which was awesome because now we would know how to get home! So off the train, we realized we had no plans. We snapped a picture (this cute old lady took it for us) then we picked a direction to walk. But ally umm...cant walk. So literally two steps in we see this little yellow car parked. It's called a GO CAR. A talking car that YOU DRIVE around the city. It tells you where to go and also a little info about the sights you are seeing (there were lil brochures in the back that we stole). PERFECT. We hopped in a cab and gave him directions to the place.
The go car place was in a lil sketch back alley just off las ramblas...literally just off the cab cost like 3 euro. But oh well. We bought the car. I was the only one brave enough to drive in barcelona, but I didn't have my driver's license (because I figured it was useless in spain....i thought wrong). So Ally and I just worked around it by trading wallets. We look similar enough. The place is pretty cool actually. It's all international kids that work there. The girl checking us out was australian and later we met one from ireland and one from romania. I am pretty sure I heard a US accent too!
The down fall of these cars is that they are a two seater. Lakshmi was a little hesitant to get in, so we decided to let ally go first, then pick up lakshmi later. Ally and I fell in love. We loved our lil talking car...until it broke. We were enjoying all the sights, when our lil person just stopped talking. aka we are riding solo in barcelona sin GPS! Thank goodness i have the sense of direction of magellan. I got us back to the office (this is when we met the romanian and irish "lad") they fixed us, and off we went. Not for long tho, she died again. We did this little cycle a few times...but made some friends on the way. When it finally worked, I picked up lakshmi and had a wonderfully simple tour of barcelona. I was so sad to get out!!
From that starting point, we decided today was a success. Next stop...FOOD. Why not test our luck and find the indian-vegetarian restaurant? Of course the day couldn't be that perfect. We found the place just fine (after talking a cab driver into driving us 2 blocks), but naturally the place was closed. Stupid hours. it was closed from 2 till 8 or something like that. So we went to Que Pasta?? which is a play on words because que pasa means what's happening, but this was like a noodles and co. You pick the pasta and sauce type of deal. It was um...not good. We each got the same pasta, big mistake cause we all hated it, but we ate it cause we were hungry.
While dining in the tiny hallway that is Que Pasta, we decided we were pulling an all nighter tonight. aka we were gonna need new clothes. A light bulb went off in our heads (i guess it was prolly my idea...i was pushing for a funny story), lets just buy new outfits and ditch what we are wearing!! So we did. We scrambled around H&M for an hr or so, before it closed, and literally got head to toe outfits (i even had to get a bra cause i didnt have one before! TMI...sorry) Anywho while in H&M our italian friends called us, so after we met them, and decided to hang out in a bar until discoteca time.
We went to a lil pub, found a big table upstairs, and just sat around and talked for a few hours. It was really fun actually. When 1 am hit, the bar was closing (this is a first in my spanish trip..bar close before 7 am what!) We decided to head to the bathroom and get changed (note pics on facebook lol) and the italians went back to their hostel. At 2 am, we met back at the bar and went to a discoteca.
Let's just keep in mind that its 2 am on a Wednesday in Barcelona. You would think a lot of people would be out right? Haha it was dead. But we managed to have fun and make it till the 6 am train (i thought it was 5 am earlier but it was 5:59..ooops)
I shall leave the rest of the morning for tomorrows post.
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