When we arrived at the airport, we found a nice place to lay down on the floor, charge up our phones and fitbits and then slept for as long as they would allow us. I'm pretty sure they only allow people to sleep until 4 or 5 in the morning when the airport opens back up. Then we just moved to a bench and sat there until the busses were running to get into Barcelona itself. I made sure to get a picture with Fernando Botero's horse statue in the airport cause I had been wanting one.
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Fernando Botero's Horse
Photo Cred: Abigail |
We took the bus in and arrived at a completely empty Cataluña Plaza, which was awesome to me since when I had been there at the beginning of the semester it had been packed. I really liked walking around the basically abandoned street and plaza before 7am. Then we basically stalked Starbucks waiting for them to open. Seeing as it was Spain, they didn´t open on time so we waited even longer. The reason we were stalking that place was my stomach was extremely upset and I needed a bathroom ASAP because of that. It was really pleasant waiting for Starbucks to open let me tell ya.
Then after things began opening up more, we headed to Park Guell. However, I was way too confident with taking the bus and we ended up on the correct bus but heading in the complete wrong direction. The bus driver chatted with me when it was his break time, the end of the bus line, and he told us we done goofed but had us get back on the bus and made sure we got off at the proper stop when we got to Park Guell. So once we got to Park Guell, we headed straight to the cross to see all of Barcelona.
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View from Cross in Park Guell
Photo Cred: Random Stranger |
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Park Guell
Photo Cred: Abigail's Selfie Mode |
We sat around in Park Guell for awhile before we headed to Sagrada Familia. We had lunch a little ways away from Sagrada Familia because it wasn't our time to go into Sagrada Familia yet. Then once it was, we went in and saw the amazing view. I was still in awe when I went even though I had seen it in January when my friends and I had gone. I wasn't up to walking through the museum though so while Abigail walked through that I just chilled. After that we headed back to the Cataluña Plaza and walked down the Rambla. We tried to find a hat for my dad here, since I still hadn't found one. However, we could only find flatbill hats and my dad would definitely not have worn that so we were out of luck. The Rambla took us to the ocean so we began our journey to find the place where our ferry would be. Also while we were walking down the Rambla, we stopped at a grocery store and bought some empanadas to eat for dinner and then so we would have lunch on the ferry as well. The ferry was a pain to find let me tell you. They aren't part of the bus line, but we were unaware of that. Someone who worked for another ferry company gave us a map of the port and told us where we needed to go, and told us that we could take the bus there. However, that was a lie. We took the bus and ended up back where we had started, we were just not having good luck with buses that day. Instead of using the bus, we had to walk across the port to get to Grimaldi Lines. Then we had a couple hours to wait before we could actually get on the ferry since we had arrived extremely early.
The reason we arrived extremely early was just because we were exhausted, we had walked a lot again after a long day of walking the day before. We had seen everything that I thought we really needed to see in Barcelona too since I had been there two other times after all and slept in the airport a good 4 times by that time what with the first visit to Barcelona, my trip to Ireland, my visit to Barcelona the week before, and then this trip all having involved sleeping in the airport. While we were waiting for the ferry to arrive, we found out that a ton of kids were taking the ferry to Italy and they were like any child who was traveling, being extremely loud.
FERRY RIDE
Eventually, we were allowed onto the ferry, went through security and were ushered into a room that had a bunch of comfy chairs. Abigail and I just laid down and went to sleep almost as soon as we got into that room. One of the workers gave us some water that tasted disgusting then we slept for 12 hours. Not because of the water mind you, just because we were tired. After those 12 hours we almost participated in a life boat drill because we thought it was required, but then they told us it was optional so we went back to the comfy chair room. We ate our empanadas and then headed up to the top deck to hang out there. We sat on the ground for awhile, then in some of the pool chairs by the pool. We just moved all over the top deck, making sure to stay super sunscreened so we wouldn´t get to burnt though. It was really warm.
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Our Ferry from Grimaldi Lines
Photo Cred: Abigail's selfie abilities |
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The Ocean between Spain and Italy
Photo Cred: Mildred |
When we were in the pool chairs, I would say we probably won the sun bathing with the most clothes on award, since we were fully clothed and everyone around us was in their swim suits, some with them untied in order to make sure they didn´t get any tan lines. After awhile we decided we had enough sun and headed onto a lower deck where we found a place to watch a basketball game that Abigail wanted to see. So she watched the game while I did Suduko. We arrived in Italy around 7pm. Finding the shuttled to get from the terminal that the ferry was at, out of the boat yard, and to the train was slightly challenging but we managed it. Then we took an hour train ride to Rome.
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