I made a new friend today! His name is Boris and he is my new travel buddy. :)
Today I did a bike tour of Barcelona which included the Sagrada Familia, the Olympic village (which is on a beach which had to be made especially for the Olympics - before that it was a swamp or something), the old royal palace, Arc de Triomf (yes, there is one here as well as in Paris) etc. and then we had sangrias on the beach! I got a kid's bike because I was too little to ride a big bike, hahaha. It was really fun, and we covered all of downtown Barcelona in about 4.5 hours.
After that I met up with Olena again and we did a spot of shopping at the southern end of La Rambla and also saw the Christopher Columbus statue which is on the port. It is a big column with a statue of Chris on the top and he is pointing out to the sea (presumably in th
e general direction of the new world?) and around the column are little statues of the events that took him on his voyage to America. They had one which looked like a Spanish missionary trying to convert a native american, and I don't know about that one. You could also pay to go up it but we didn't. That night we met up with Olena's friends from her exchange program and hung out in some seedy suburb of Barcelona where we got shots for €2 each (but they were tequila, and I hate tequila). Oh well.
Today I did a bike tour of Barcelona which included the Sagrada Familia, the Olympic village (which is on a beach which had to be made especially for the Olympics - before that it was a swamp or something), the old royal palace, Arc de Triomf (yes, there is one here as well as in Paris) etc. and then we had sangrias on the beach! I got a kid's bike because I was too little to ride a big bike, hahaha. It was really fun, and we covered all of downtown Barcelona in about 4.5 hours.After that I met up with Olena again and we did a spot of shopping at the southern end of La Rambla and also saw the Christopher Columbus statue which is on the port. It is a big column with a statue of Chris on the top and he is pointing out to the sea (presumably in th
e general direction of the new world?) and around the column are little statues of the events that took him on his voyage to America. They had one which looked like a Spanish missionary trying to convert a native american, and I don't know about that one. You could also pay to go up it but we didn't. That night we met up with Olena's friends from her exchange program and hung out in some seedy suburb of Barcelona where we got shots for €2 each (but they were tequila, and I hate tequila). Oh well.
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