Barcelona- first day

Trip Start Sep 13, 2005

Trip End Feb 12, 2006

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Friday, October 28, 2005

I spent two days in Barcelona with my friend Tiara this weekend. We left on Friday at 1 in the morning because it is a 6 hour bus ride there. On Friday, we visited La Rambla, a huge main street that has a wide walkway in the middle with many different vendors and people putting on little sideshows for money. We also went to the Museu (museum) de Picasso and Museu de Xocolata (chocolate) and Port Vell. Signs and names are all in catalan, the regional language, which seems to me a mix between spanish and french. When we arrived in Barcelona, we got a map from a tourist information stand and commenced to walk around Barcelona without considering the difference in distance per cm on the map compared to the map of Pamplona which is a considerably smaller city. We walked muchissimo and were ready for a good nights sleep! We stayed the night in a 'campground' which had cabins, mobile homes, and spots for tents. We didn't know what we were reserving, only that it was the cheapest we had encountered online. It was a mobile home!! Interesting... It worked though; we had beds, a bathroom, and a kitchen.

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01. Graffiti	02. Graffiti	03. estatua	04. stadium
05. entrance to Montjuic	06. estatua	07. starbucks in spain- que raro!	08. starbucks menu
08.5 starbucks	09. The market	10. market	11. fruta
12. Emporia State University	13. skin?	14. more nasty meat	15. lottery tickets
16. neatly stacked fruit	17. tomatoes in the market	18. peppers	19. Museu de Picasso
20. Museu de Picasso	21. outside the museum's building	22. video-music outside the museum	23. bike
24. Bubbles	25. Bubble	26. the 'fat ' lady	27. one of the 3 stooges
28. again	29. a day without a smile....	30. advertisement	31. ad
32. an apartment building	33. Cristobol Colón	34. Las Palmas	35. Las Palmas otra vez
36. Port Vell 'boardwalk'	37. The friendly lobster	38. Boardwalk again	39. Bridge over the port
40. the olympic rings?	41. the bridge opening for a boat to pass through	42. the bridge- closing again	43. the port
44. El Museu de Xocolata	45. Museu de Xocolata	46. a chocolate boat	47. the cacao plant
48. Antique chocolate ads	49. Don Quixote in chocolate	50. Don Quixote contra los molinas del viento	51. closer view
52. Rocinante	53. chariot of chocolate	54. hecho en chocolate	55. La Sagrada Familia en chocolate
56. more chocolate...	57. chocolate again	58. they even did Nemo in chocolate	59. and Lady and the tramp
60. Imitation Arc de Triomph	61. another view	62. a museum that we didn't visit...	63. a statue in a park near the Arc
64. our accomodations	65. entry	66. hallway/kitchen	67. Water Closet
68. bed before being made	69. after	70. the other bedroom