Barcelona!

Today in the evening I arrived back from my weekend trip from Barcelona. It was really an amazing but exhausting time (a lot of walking, partying and not too much sleep). On friday morning, I left Switzerland in the snowy morning and arrived in the spring of Barcelona with around 15° and sunshine. After a short stop in the youth hostel we went of course straight to the beach. Later on in the evening (after a siesta of course) we went first to eat paella and then met with my friend Jenny (former intern from Bosch in Stuttgart) and her flatmate. After some local beer from Catalunya we went to a club called Mojito.

The day afterwards we got up at 11 and went to Parc Güell - a park built after the archetype of an english garden - which is UNESCO cultural heritage since 1984. After this we went to La sagrada familia, the famous cathedral designed by Antoni Gaudi. Although they started to build it already back in 1882 it´s still not finished and judging from the plans it will take a while to finish it. In the evening (after another siesta and some tapas for dinner) we met again Jenny and some friends and went to a club called baja which is situated directly at the beach. We partied all night long and due to the change to summertime and losing one hour we arrived back in the hostel at 7 am...

Still, next morning we woke up already at 11 again and continued our Barcelona tour. We went to Montjuïc, the hill in the southern part of the city where you can have a look at the city, the beach and the harbour. After taking a look at the olympic stadium we went to the Palau National, a huge palace which is situated just in front of the Plaça d'Espanya. After the obligatory siesta, another paella we went again to the beach for an extensive photo-shooting session of nightpictures and the for a beer in bar in the city centre again.

Today we then finished our trip easily with having some coffees before going to the airport. There we faced some problems - we didn´t have electronic ticketnr. because we had to reschedule our flight (Swiss cancelled our original return flight to Basel). At the same time we had to explain why we just need the flight to Zurich and we don´t want to have our luggage brought to Basel again (our connection to Basel would have left 6 hours after arriving in Zurich). Anyway we managed to get all troubles solved and even appeared at the gate in time for boarding...

Ps. For more pictures surf here