The day started off early... Too early. We woke up at 5:15 and left quickly to make a journey to the airport in Rome because we were flying to Barcelona. We landed in Spain, our last country, at about 10:30 AM, but not before meeting Kevin, a friend on the plane. He was also traveling and he showed us this awesome thing called a Barcelona Card, which basically gets us unlimited public transport, and access to museums or attractions for free or at a discount. So we bought a four day pass, because that's how long we have, and it is already worth the money. Once we made our way to the center of the city, we at lunch with Kevin before parting ways. We then took a walk down to the water, and sat to think about what to do next. As we are sitting there, we made some friends with a group of 4 British girls. We all then decided to walk to the beach to see what it was all about. After a longer than anticipated walk, we made it but had no intention of actually swimming, so we just walked around for a while.
Once we parted ways with them, we decided to use our discount at the nearby aquarium. It was really cool and we saw tons of awesome fish and sharks!
Then we saw we had a free pass to a chocolate museum, so of course we headed over there to see what it was about. We get in and our tickets were a piece of dark chocolate!
There were tons of sculptures made of chocolate and we learned about the history of it too! Still with time on our hands, we found an awesome park with people doing all sorts of things, like sports or yoga or just sitting around. So we took a nap! It was much needed. Finally it was time to meet up with our host, Pedro, who is the boyfriend of Austin's Spanish teacher who came from Spain for the year. He brought us to his home then we had an amazing dinner of seafood tapas, that stuffed us all.
It was a gorgeous first day in Barcelona and we are excited to see what it brings next!
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