The hall is so dark it’s no wonder a wireless signal can get lost. I forgot about the pitch dark European hallways of hostels and hotels. This one tonight, our first night on our trip to Europe, is not pitch dark—just dark as hell dark. Elizabeth does a magnificent job of feeling her way to the door and finding the large square light switch.
A push—and a few flicks—(good thing we’re not epileptic) and the yellow stucco walls with the white kids jigsaw cut out border welcomes the two of us home. It’s almost one and..
We awoke from our beds nearly 36 hours ago.
We left just over 24 hours ago. (Left the ground that is.)
And thanks to the combined horrors of American Airlines and Chicago we arrived at our hostel in Barcelona’s Barri Gotic some seven hours late. Hey we were just happy that we got out of Chi-hole and made our connection to London. (Waiting at Heathrow was not the coolest, but the five hours went fairly quick.)
Heathrow=
Take a large round circle and throw in tons of people and shops and that’s we were engulfed in
Reading..walking..talking..wandering..eating..pissing..reading walking..talking…
Heathrow time = done.
Load plane to Barcelona.
Read and snooze—snooze and zone out.
Arrive.
Take train.
Take Metro.
Walk and wander. (Nice map skillz LP)
Arrive.
Drop bags.
Ask for eating recs. Find a non-eating rec. Enjoy tapas and a bottle of wine.
Tapas= croquets-ham salad-asparagus and some wonderful sauce-potatoes with an awesome sauce (kind of like the dipping sauce for an onion blossom from Outback!) Finished off with tomato and tuna salad. (For the actual names of these dishes check back or wait for Liz’s update.)
Wander city.
Drink a beer in the park.
Wander into the dark as hell hall. Find the glowing room that the wifi still can’t
seem to find. 1:21am us = 7:21 pm US and
adios.
(Look for pics later)
yeah!! i'm glad you made it. the food sounds so perfectly spainsh. fyi, patatas bravas is the potato dish you described so you can order it again if you like. i never, ever tire of croquetas. besos!
Posted by: christin cifaldi | June 18, 2009 at 09:18 PM
Good looking out!
Posted by: Dan | June 19, 2009 at 04:58 AM
Did you celebrate Bloomsday at Heath Row?
Posted by: Andre | June 23, 2009 at 03:23 PM