On Thursday night we checked into our own version of The Spainish Apartment. The group I went with included a couple girls from my school, a couple of their friends that were visiting from London, and a couple people on spring break from Cornell. It seemed like everyone in the group was laid-back, witty, and outgoing, and it made for a feel-good vibe that withstanded pickpocketings and violence.
On my first night we went to George Payne, an Irish bar in Plaza Urquiaona. I had been there before and it is a must-go if you are in Barcelona. On Thursdays there is 2 for 1 cocktails (7 euro) with fun options such as The Green Leprocaun and the very fun Long Island Iced Tea.
On Friday we walked around Las Ramblas and then met some friends on the beach to "bottelon" (the spanish word for sitting around and passing a bottle of booze.) At one point there was a surfer guy towel-changing directly in our view, which the east-coasters thought was pretty funny. Someone says, "I'll give anyone ten euro to go rip that towel off him..." Well, I walked away ten euro richer...and made some new friends. I later bought the guy who made the bet a drink with the money, because I probably would have done it for free anyway.
On Saturday night we saw Girl Talk. It was a blast, except that we got split up and two people got punched. Not cool. And I also almost got pickpocketed about three times. NOT cool.
The arrival of Sunday was warmly welcomed. We walked around town and found what we thought was an unimpressive garage-sale type market. Turns out, the market was for exchange only. Since no one brought anything to trade, we all have fun finding things we had on us (pens, bracelets, food, etc.) to trade. It was really cool. The boys got a football so we proceeded to a square where they played for awhile until they started a pick-up game with some little kids. Later that night was the Barcelona futbol game. It is traditional in spain to stay sober at games because (I'm guessing) they are too faithful to their team to need to drink. After the intense weekend, us Americans happily conformed.
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