Barcelona

Hola Barcelona!!!

Sept 26 (Sun): Continuing from the last post, we took a night bus down from Edinburgh to London...another 9 hours of traveling but this time the seat was better so at least got to sleep some along the journey.

Arrived London early in the morning then took another bus to Stansted airport which was about 1.5 hours away from the city. Compared to LCCT...Stansted is definitely a much nicer airport...lol!!

Finally arrived Girona (Barcelona) airport at 1.30pm after flying for 2 hours. It’s good that we’re not from EU or UK…skipped the long queue at the immigration. ;p

Girona airport is about 1.5 hours away from Barcelona city so it was already 4pm when we reached Mediterranean Youth Hostel. Plus, it was a Sunday so all shops were closed. For safety sake, we juz stayed in and rested for the rest of the day. There were 3 Italian guys, a China guy, a Korean girl, a couple dunno from where and both of us in our 10-bed mixed dorm.

Sept 27 (Mon): Coincidentally met another 3 guys from TARC staying in the same hostel and they told us about the strike on the 29th...so we went to the bus station early to get our bus tickets to Valencia before starting our sightseeing for the day.

Passed by this Arc de Triomphe as we were walking to Plaza Catalunya. This is different from the one in Paris. :p

Mom wanted me to take a ground tour in Barca for safety but it was all very pricey so we decided to take the hop-on-hop-off bus to go around the city. We bought a 2-day pass for £29...spent a lil’ more but at least it was a safer by walking lesser. :p

Spent our first day visiting most of Gaudi’s masterpieces. First stop…Casa Battlo.

Next stop…La Pedrera (Casa Mila)…another fancy-shaped building. :p

Remember this from Meteor Garden? The famous Sagrada Familia!! There were so many visitors queuing to enter the church! This church is still under construction after so many years…and the progress will depend on the donation/funding received.

Another Gaudi’s masterpiece that appeared in Meteor Garden…Park Guell. This park was huge…we spent bout 2 hours walking around the entire park under scorching hot sun. =)

Hopped back on the bus and continued our sightseeing.

Our next stop…La Ramblas. This street is constantly filled with tourists and pick-pockets. We were extremely alert while walking along this street. Saw this 'Kuala Lumpur' shop along La Ramblas.

This is the famous La Boqueria market…lotsa fruit stalls inside.

Had Paella at La Ramblas…too bad this wasn’t nice…a lil’ salty. Food was quite expensive and both of us brought too little cash along…very cham…haha!! :p