Barcelona
Ahh Spain.
So I it here now in Madrid on day 4 of our trip. In our hotel. With no clothes or anything, as our bags were not put on our plane from Barcelona to Madrid by Spanair. A 50 min flght that happens several times a day. Now we are 9 hours after arrival, with no bags. Unbelievable! It had to happen after our last night in Barcelona, raging till the wee hours of the morning, with no sleep and jumping on the plane to get to Madrid. Now we remain dirty, tired, with no clothes or toiletries. Lovely.
So Barcelona was the first leg. Great times there. We stayed near Plaça Cantalyuna, just where Las Ramblas begins, off to one of the small side streets. We rented an apartment, and it was such a great idea. Beautiful place with a balcony and central location. Las Ramblas is the famous road in Barcelona which is now flooded with tourists. Hectic and packed, running down through the old city to the port, it is fun to see, especially roaming in the late night, but we got tired of it quickly, devoting our time to the real Barcelona. On the late nights, the street has all these Pakistani men selling 1 EUro beers on the street to the raging alcoholics looking for cheap fixes. It was quite funny. Good to see our people taking care of business. The Pakis also ran all the subway news stands, blaring hindi music whenever you get out! The rest of Las Ramblas at night was crawling with hookers. All over the place by the lower part of it! And most of them were black, which was strange cause I saw very few black people in the city otherwise! We also happened to be there during a big football match between FC Barcelona and the Celts, I think from Scotland, judging by teh thousands of soccer hooligans roaming the streets drunk from morning till, well, morning again! These kilted Scots were MAD I tell you! With there blaring songs and chants and all out belligerence! But guess the big matches draw in the soccer hooligans from the UK wheenver there is a big match.
Barcelona is a beautiful city! With it´s very European Spanish style, and very cosmopolitan. Full of style, high end food, culture, archiecture, and partying of course. We hit all the Gaudi sites of course, from the everlasting construction of the Sagrada Familia, and the funky design of the Park Guell, as well as a few other buildings. We roamed the streets and alleyways of the Gothic Quarter, which was very cool, admiring the amazing buildings and designs. The Picasso museum and The Cathedral were other sites. Then of course we partied, which in Barcelona doesnt begin till 2 or 3 am! We got to the Sutton Club on a Sat night at 2am, and it was empty, until about 330am, after which it was ragign till at least 7am. I think we didn´t sleep till at least 6am each night, and we certainly paid the price for that, but alas, that is Barcelona!
The food here is difficult to get a hold on. For the first two days we couldn´t find the right food to eat! The tapas are plentiful, as are the pork products, which posed another problem! All the real good restaurants are very high end, or very popular, adn we failed at getting reservations at most. And we were there from Sat to Mon, and Sun and Mon almost everything is closed for the days of rest! But luckily we found some friends who have been in town that took us to some good places in the end, and we got our fix of Catalan Tapas to get us moving... But I know I better learn all the words for Pork in Spanish, because they love it here! But our 3 days is to an end, and i look forward to coming back to Barca at some point to fill in all the gaps and enjoy it even more...
So now after our last night of partying we make it to Madrid. And our bags are STILL not here. I can only hope they will arrive sometime soon, because I need to brush my teeth, shave, and change my goddamn clothes. Damn that Spanair....
Off to explore Madrid. In clean clothes or not!...
So did you get to Madrid in the nungoos or vaat?
Full details please with all the adventures of the 3 Muskateers!
S
Posted by: Salacious Samosa | March 26, 2008 at 06:01 PM