Last night, we went to a Neapolitan pizzeria, called Gusto. We were seated next to this elderly Italian couple from Napoli, who just happened to be the parents of the owners. They were hilarious! We had a two hour conversation with them (in Italian, so I didn’t get all of it…) about their children, us, how we liked Barcelona, etc. They even got the brothers to give us a free appetizer (and semi-forcibly made me eat a rice-ball)! It was so much fun!
Today, we accidentally slept in until 11:30, which sort of foiled our plans to be the first people at the different Gaudi attractions. We got to La Sagrada Familia first, which is spectacular!! We spent about two hours there, admiring this amazing place! We then went to Casa Batllo, which is a beautiful house (more like huge mansion!) in the middle of the city. The pictures below are, obviously, not taken by us (we will post later).
La Sagrada Familia
Casa Batllo
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 11:07 am. 1 comment
I woke up VERY sick this morning. I was incredibly nautious until about 6PM. It took a bit of convincing, but I finally got Anthony to go out on his own (I didn’t want to ruin his day). He had Thai food for lunch, which cracks me up. Finally, I went out with Anthony and walked around Las Ramblas, shopped a bit, and am now back at our place. We are going to go grab some food in a bit… something mild! 
Here is a a cute puppy we saw in a pet store:
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 1:17 pm. Add a comment
Today, Anthony and I met up with a friend of a friend, Anna. She is from Barcelona, but now lives in Berlin (but is visiting family). She took us through the Gracia neighborhood, which is still very community oriented. We then went to Park Güell, which is spectacular! Afterwords, we went to a really great cafe (I cannot remember the actual name, but it translated to “Shhh, don’t tell anyone”) and chatted for a couple hours. It was a really fun day!
Here are a couple pictures from Park Güell:
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 11:41 am. Add a comment
Our first morning in Barcelona has been a bit wet. We walked around, found a bunch of really fun looking stores, but all are closed on Sunday. Who knew?
The funniest part of the day has been my morning run. I got up at 8AM and planned to run for about 30 minutes. A little over an hour later I finally found my way home, after attempting to get directions from several people. Everyone kept pointing me in the wrong direction (I, apparently, was not pronouncing Carrer de Comte d’Urgell correctly).
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 4:08 am. 1 comment
We are in Barcelona! We arrived about six hours ago. So far, I have managed to get us lost for about an hour looking for a restuarant called Origens 99′9%. So, we came back to our room, looked up directions, and left to find it, only for me to get us lost yet again. After about two hours of walking we found it. On the bright side, we got to see quite a bit of Barcelona tonight! Plus, we worked up a really good appetite. The funniest part of the evening was the confusion over leaving a tip. The credit card receipt had no space for a tip. Our waiters both didn’t speak any english (and they could not understand our bad combination of Spanish and Italian). They finally brought a woman over who spoke very little English. They had no idea what we were talking about, so we left five euro. They were shocked and really thankful. We were just confused…
So far, we are having a really good time! It is nice to not have snow. It is raining a bit, but the weather is really comfortable outside.
Here are a couple pictures from Origens 99′9%:
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 4:46 pm. 1 comment
They have a gay Christmas celebration! This year, Mary really is a Mary (in drag, of course!)!
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