I think my Spanish teacher lied to me.
It’s the same feeling of the childhood realization that Santa isn’t real: it’s probably true… but I just can’t accept it.
I distinctly recall sitting in the classroom trying to remember which Spanish artists, writers, and icons were associated with particular cultural significance for a high school exam. That is, until La Profesora offered a “Eureka!” clue… that the word “gaudy” originated from the surname of the famous architect Antoni Gaudí.
A Dali painting from Reina Sofia. Love. (more…)
Madrid was wonderful – and so hot! I have to admit that this city is exhausting – not only with the late nights that the Spanish are so fond of, but the amount of walking and the heat we faced in our journey. There was so much to do and see in Madrid and with only a few days there, we barely scratched the surface. (more…)
We arrived in Madrid a little past nine since we stayed on the beach in Barcelona for most of our day. Our map reading skills were not successful when we got off our metro line and spent more time than necessary looking for our hostel that was only a block away.
On our last night in Barcelona we decided to not hang out at the hostel and find out what everyone else was doing, but rather go off ourselves at establishments that were more “local.”
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On our final day in Barcelona, rather than jumping on a train early to Madrid as we had originally intended, the warm temperature and bright sun beckoned us to the beach one last time.
Right next door to our hostel in Plaza Real was a small place where they had multiple flamenco shows per night. Luckily we also received a discount price since we booked the hostel next door.
Our walking tour guide was so wonderful that we decided to take his electric bike tour to Montjuic. It was SO MUCH FUN. For anyone going to Barcelona, you need to do this tour and request JB. We Heard about it originally through our hostel, Kabul.
This was my favorite day in Barcelona! We started the day out right with some churros con chocolate for breakfast.
After our walking tour, we were ruled by our stomachs and found a really nice tapas place outside of la Catedral and the architecture school. First we said we were only going to have 3 or 4 tapas but they were so good we ended up havin at least 8 each.
