barthelonaaaa numero three

sunday, we packed up and then metroed/climbed our way up a mountain to go to parc guell, or the gaudi park. gorgeous. words are not enough so just wait for pictures. we ate fruit and sat on the grass and got slightly sunburnt and it was good. this whole trip has made me realize how much i deeply miss sun. it's been the coldest may in 100 years in berlin, so you can imagine i'm not really pleased with that. i miss having vitamin D influences in my life. the ocean is something that i've also been missing quite a bit, too. i cant believe i hadnt seen an ocean since january!
after picking up our stuff, we headed to girona where we were spending the night (the ryan air airport is 90 km away from barcelona, much like frankfurt-hahn is not part of civilization nor normalcy). we ended up getting the wrong train (woops) but it worked out because our train traveled along the coast, which meant we were tantalized by the beauty of many beaches and many tanned people. spain is a gorgeous country, and i really cant wait to go back someday and spend more time there. in fact, it is my most fervent desire to go on a longer trip to spain sometime in the next ish-years. where are you, spontaneous, wealthy benefactor?

in girona, we witnessed the joy of the winning of the game between barcelona (who won) and some poor, sad loser. when i say 'witnessed', i mean we took a few pictures of the drunken revelers and then retreated to our hostel to hear the boom of fireworks for the entire night. girona really isn't anything special except that it has a white tower-thingy; we may or may not have taken some self-timer shots which invoked the gandalf/sauron story. whoah, probs shouldnt admit this on the internet. but what the hell? I LIKE LOTR, OK?

all in all, i was incredibly impressed by this trip and i cant wait to do more traveling. which is good, because a week from thursday, i'm headed to belgium and then three days after returning, i'm flying to thessaloniki, greece (with hannah), which will hopefully involve me becoming tan.

also, i'm impressed by any of you who read all of this. i know i can be kind of long-winded but it was amazing. go to barcelona. you will not regret it. peace out.