don´t have much time to write and yet there is so much to say! i´ll try to keep it quick...plus, i´ll be heading up the coast tomorrow to see some coastal towns and i´m not sure that i´ll have much access to the internet. regardless, i have been totally and completely blessed thus far! to be perfectly honest, i´ve had my moments of loneliness or nervousness and just yesterday i was thinking, "man, i´d love to meet someone to just have a meal with...someone to talk to!"... and then, literally, a couple hours later i was walking through the aquarium (having finally found it after 30 mins of walking in circles AROUND it unkowningly)and i met a girl named Luiza from Romania. her english was great and so we got talking and we ended up spending the rest of the evening together walking around barcelona´s artsy Rambla, checking out the main Catedral(tho i´m sure it has a better name), catching a bit of mass, and then stopping into a restaurant for some tapas and paella. all in all, really great! she´s moving here to start the university on monday and so i said i´d meet up with her again when i come back to barcelona next week.
it´s interesting to walk around with someone else...it definitely feels like you can relax a bit more in some places. plus, she was so pretty and people were much more enthusiastic to help us find certain streets or metro stops. that´s one thing i noticed...people are not always so nice with me and i´ve already been stopped numerous times on the metro or street by people who are looking for streets, bus stops, other locations...i doubt i look local?? maybe i look like i know where i´m going?? which i don´t...not half the time anyway, but barcelona is perfect for that sort of aimless walking. and if you do think you´re a bit lost, you just look for the metro and hop on. anwyay, i´ll write a bit more later....
hasta luego
i´m off to see the park guell. i think that is what it´s called and perhaps some time on the beach.
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Oooh the aquarium was amazing! and so is the park... i realize now that that's where the final runway show as for ANTM when it was the showdown between Caridee and Melrose and that huge bench is in the movie Amelie.
Mmmm you're making me so jealous talking about the Rambla, the paella, and the tapas while I'm stuck in the office. Soak it all in!
Hi
your note on BAM just showed up on my BAM alerts. I am here in Barcelona with my wife. My daughter flew from Amsterdam to meet us here
we are staying on the same alley as the picasso museum and we walk by the guy playing spanish guitar a few times a day
Yes this does out- do Austin Resting up for tonight.
Enjoy the weekend
yay! you found a friend! that makes everything so much better :) i'm so glad you're having such a good time...any pictures???
oh i can just see you wandering and beaching it up... i so wish i was there with you!
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