Sorry again for the lateness, I'm just slack okay sorry. But I'm here now writing you a nice little post to learn about my latest mischief. This trip was amazing AMAZING and I don't even really know where to begin. In Belgium, the school exams start in early June right, so as exchange students we decided we would do some cultural awakening as a part of our study leave and took off to Spain for four nights. I went with 4 other exchangees, my two lovely Canadians Patrick and Eric, Best-Exchange-Friend Danielle (australian) and Keely our resident American. We stayed at a family friend of Patrick's host family's appartment and had an awesome, awesome time. Here's why:
THE BEACH! It was so, so cold (the water) but absolutely stunning and so nice to be on the beach after so long! It was so nice and hot. There's nothing like spending the day lounging on the beach. Literally, they had loungers you could just pick up and lay on. It was bliss (:
So even though it was just us five doing our own thing, we still did some touristy stuff and visited the sites to see of Barcelona. The first day when the beach wasn't an option (look at the grey sky in the picture), we went to La Sagrada Familia. The church is really impressive to look at, I thought it looked like it was melting kind of. It's sad that he didn't get to see it finished (which it still isn't, by the way)
We also went to the Gaudi park which was really cool. A friend of Gaudi's owned the land and it was an area that was supposed to be like upper class Barcelona so he hired Gaudi to make it look the part I guess. Its something ridiculous like 15 hectares in size and the mosaics are fascinating to look at, makes you think about how long it must have taken for him to make.
The famous lizard thing.. This was cool too, I had to wait so long to get a photo of it with nobody sitting on it.
So yeah, that was my trip to Barcelona. Of course we walked Las Ramblas and shopped a bit, but it was mostly just a chill on the beach kind of trip. We went out and saw how lively Barcelona is at night too which was fun, the trip overall just made me want to learn Spanish, it was sooo hard to order in restaurants and stuff, you would think they spoke Englush but that wasn't always the case.
