May 15, 2012

Today we met outside the hotel at 8.00, and of course didn’t leave until 8.30.  We walked down to King’s Cross Station with our luggage and caught a train to Gatwick Airport.  We did the whole security/airport thing and then walked the 1.5 miles (literally) to our gate.  We hopped on the Easy Jet and asta la vista London, arividerchi Barcelona.  The flight was a little over an hour and Barcelona is an hour ahead so we lost a little time traveling.  We landed at 2.00 Barcelona time and hopped on a train that brought us into the city center.  We walked down las Rambas until we found our hotel.  We are staying at the Cuatro Naciones here in Barcelona and this hotel blows the one in London out of the water, it is very nice.  However, the “2^nd” floor is where all of our rooms are and it is not two flights of stairs, it’s about six flights.  Luckily there is an elevator for when we get lazy.  We had about an hour to unload and powder our noses until we met in the lobby.  We walked down las Rambas all the way to the beach, stopping and checking everything out on the way.  I love Barcelona, I’m pretty sure half of the group has already said they are moving down here.  The beach is the Mediterranean Sea and it is FREEZING, I put my foot in and immediately had to take it out.  We were released for the day at this point, so we all went back to the hotel and got ready for the night.  We walked around for a while after showering and what not, just exploring the city and back alleys off of the main drag which is las Rambas.  We found a great little restaurant and sat down and had dinner, I had a pizza and it wasn’t terrible.  The sangria is pretty awesome though.  We had a late night stroll down to the beach just to see what was up, we got all the way there and not a soul was out, so we called it a night.  It was a pretty slow day, but much needed after hectic London. I’ll post again tomorrow.

T