Our final day in Barcelona...and it´s rainy of course. Eh. We were pretty tired and out of it this morning anyway, so ended up sleeping in until like noon. :) We finally dragged ourselves outside around 2, and headed to the train station to get our reservations to Madrid. Apparently in Spain, they don´t have the same concept of customer service, because we ended up waiting over an hour in line... Luckily though, you get a ticket for your place in line, so we did that, and then went and got some lunch in the meantime. We ate at a Pans & Company, which is Spain´s popular chain of fast-food, but with baguettes - much healthier than McDonalds. :) I got a "fun burger", which had shredded cheese and a slab of ham on it. Interesting.
For our only sightseeing of the day, we went to Parc Guell, which is a huge park also designed by Gaudi (couldn´t quite fit it in our Gaudi day yesterday). It had this giant mosaic lizard statue, which was the popular photo op of the place. There were also some curvy mosaic benches with a great overlook of the city. We just meandered a bit as we do in parks, and took plenty of pictures. Very relaxing.
Even though it was raining off and on, we decided to still check out Barcelona´s beach, just to see it. We took the metro there, and then walked through Barcelona´s former Olympic Village to get there...and found nothing. The beach was completely deserted because of the weather, but at least we got to see where we could have sunbathed. Ah, such is life.
We went from there to the area at the base of the Montjuic hill, which on weekend nights has "Magic Fountain" shows with lights and music. We stayed for two of the 10 minute long shows, which were really cool, especially at dusk. They played classical music timed with the fountains, which I really liked.
For dinner tonight, we finally got the traditional Spanish meal of tapas, which are basically small portions of appetizer-like foods such as olives, anchovies, or the more normal cheeses, mushrooms, or slices of ham. We split 5 dishes - meatballs, tomato bread, ham croquettes, (cold) potatoes with garlic sauce, and something else...
We were tired tonight so just packed up our stuff and went to bed pretty early. Hasta luego, Barcelona.
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