We started our day off great despite having to be up so early, we got to the Barcelona airport and went right to the tourist desk, it's so much easier to fly when you don't have luggage to check and pick up. We asked how to get to the Sagrada Familia and they explained it very well in English might I add, so we took the airport bus and then took the subway and found it no problem. This church is probably the most imposing, beautiful, undiscrible structure I have seen so far. They were doing a ton of construction on this church when we got there, we just assumed since it was so old that it needed up keep, but apparently it was never actually finished. The construction begun in the 1800's and won't be finished until 2030! Talk about an on going project.
After the church we decided we should go back to one of the stops we passed when we were on the bus, called Plaza de Espanya it had some really cool buildings, a huge art museum which we didn't go in but looked like it was once a palace. We also seen the magic fountain but it was emptied for cleaning :( after this we went to find our hostel, that's right we stayed in a hostel and it was great! It was called the Sant Jordi hostel, I would recommend it to anyone. It was safe, clean, and had a great location.
Once we were all checked in we went to our room which we shared with 6 other people, and mapped out our attack on the city. We picked three things we really wanted to do. One of which was the Casa Batllo, its a house designed and lived in by Antoni Gaudi, which was also the architect of the church we went to. The house was amazing, it was complete inspired by water and the ocean, it was the most original article the I've ever seen in a house. I might add here that it took us a good solid hour to find this place because we took the subway and then had to map it out, we stopped at the Starbucks so I could get something , we decided instead of walking around make we would ask the people there, we did and so we followed her directions which...weren't right. We walked back to our original spot and then low and behold we found it!
We were going to go to another church which also had gothic architecture but we didn't have time. So we went to the largest aquarium in Spain. It was pretty awesome we seen tons of fish we have never seen before. On the way to the aquarium we seen on a map that there was a cool monument and a few neat buildings not far from it so we did that first. All in all it was a great adventure to Barcelona! I might add here that a lot more people who spoke English in Barcelona, which was helpful when needing to get around.
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