Barcelonaaaaaa 2013

Loonngg time since I`ve last posted anything. The rest of the summer went flying and the autumn even more fast. My boyfriend moved after me to Finland in the end of September. Autumn was full of trying to settle down in Finland, getting social security number etc etc etc. The whole talk about the EU and how easy it is to work within the EU, what an absolute BULLSHIT. We had to go through so much stuff with police, tax office, KELA and even the public transportation offices. Unbelievable. Anyway, no we are finally settled down to our own place in Helsinki and looking forward to our travels. First tho, let`s look back into last summer and me and my teammate Mira`s Barcelona trip!

The night before it was time to leave for Barcelona Mira came over to Helsinki and we went to the gym to do a work out. Then it was time to do the last packing and go to bed. Our flight left early in the morning on 15th July at 6.15 am. The flight took around three hours and then we hopped into this Aerobus towards the center. There we found ourselves to the nearest metro but decided to enjoy the sun and walk for at least four metro stations. We met our Bed and Breakfast owner at the metro station of Barceloneta.

Ermmm.. What about the size difference..?

The first impression of Barcelona was that being a big city (and I always compare big cities to Athens) it was really clean! Modern in a way but still old pits in. People who we asked help for directions actually spoke English. The big city also had small things from other big cities around the world like Jamaican style coffee place, or the double decked London buses. 

Our BB place was on a really good place, close to the metro AND most importantly the beach. The owner was nice and he was from Argentina. Our room turned out to be a CLOSET. Once again the power of pictures changing the image came true. Literally we had a bed of 120 cm wide. At the end of the bed there was maybe 20 cm room for our backpacks. Then there was this tiny closet (withing the closet..). Next to the bed there was room for one person to stand. The room door was locked with this tiny lock and from the cap you could see inside the room. Well, not much room to complain, it was one of the cheapest ones. + the location was perfect. And after all we didn`t come there to spent time in the room. 

After dropping of your backpacks and we getting over the shock of the size of the room we got changed into our bikinis and headed to the beach to eat. Rookie mistake. Probably during the whole week that was the most expensive what we paid for a little portions of food. The Barceloneta Beach was massive and there were so many people there. I wish I could live some place like that. The atmosphere is just lovely! We went for a little walk around the beach area and found a nice market place close by to our B&B. 

At the beach we immediately started to work on our tans and that def needed some work... What surprised me, was that the water was freezing!!! I could barely go into the water since it was really really cold. I didn't even swim that many times there since I was freezing in the water. On the beach there were lots of young people working for clubs and bars and trying to sell bracelet with discounts and free entrances to the clubs. By accident this blond girl came to talk to us and she ended up being a Finnish. We bought this bracelet thing from her, can`t really remember what offers we got but apparently something good. Not only the bar and club offers since we are definitely not the two most party girls..

my new car? 

Then it was time to head back to our B&B place. Shower time and  hanging out trying to google things what we would wanna see. Then we left for eating and again we decided to walk to the famous La Rambla. It was only 15-20 minutes walk away and it was so nice to walk there when it was a bit darker and see the nice view of the beach and the big city. La rambla was this busy touristic street near by the water. It took us ages to find a nice place to eat in there. We ended up ordering the Spanish paella with classes of sangria of course. After eating we went exploring the smaller streets and found ourselves in the Stone bar with massive pints of beer. Cheap ones and all. It was a cozy chill out place. On our way back to our place we walked through this nice Marine something place. It was nice during the night with all the lights etc.

Finally the long day come to its end and we could feel it in our legs. We had been walking a lot and exploring Barcelona. Our closet was boiling hot during the night even tho we had a little air fan thing in the room.

Marine something :)