Adoro Barcelona

Wow. What a weekend. This was the perfect first weekend trip. Barcelona quickly became one of my favorite places in our quick trip. I'm going to break this up into two entries. Today, I'll talk about our first day: Saturday. Caitlin, James, and I got in Friday night, had a great dinner, checked into hostal number 1, and went to bed. Saturday, we woke up very early to check into another hostal which had better reviews. The woman working there didn't know if the people in the triple were planning on leaving, so she told us to come back at 11:30. This gave us some time to exploring. First, we headed to the Boqueria Market. I know that I said Annecy's market surpassed Lyon's, but this one takes the cake. I don't know how any market could be more diverse and fun than this one.
And they had tons of interesting and delicious looking foods:After checking in, we headed to the Picasso museum. I don't have any pictures of this for obvious reasons, but let me tell you, it was amazing. They have over 3,600 pieces of Picasso's art, starting from his childhood doodles. After spending quite a bit of time admiring his works, we went to the Chocolate Museum. This didn't quite live up to my expectations, but it was really fun! They had chocolate sculptures:And, of course, a chocolate cafe, that we had to indulge in!
On our way to our next destination, we stumbled upon the Arc de Triomf, a beautiful arch built for the 1888 Universal Exposition:
After this, we went to the Teleferic de Montjuic. Here, we took a cable car across to Montjuic. It was well worth the hour wait! We got to see the city from a completely different vantage point, saw the Mediterranean for the first time, and had a great time!

From there, we went to the Olympic Stadium. They allow you to go in and see the stadium, which was pretty fun:

We saw this beautiful building from the stadium and thought we should see what it was. It turns out it is the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. We didn't have time to go in because we were starving, but we were able to admire the architecture:

After that, we went back to Las Ramblas, a very fun street market near our hostal, grabbed dinner, and went to bed. It was a very fun, and very exhausting day. I'll blog about Sunday tomorrow.

Also, since I received a couple of emails about how much you liked the Q&A, I think I'll do it every Thursday since it's such a busy day, that'll be an easy thing for me to do. So, leave comments or send me emails (elizabeth.erratt@gmail.com) with any questions you have about what I've been up to, what I'm experiencing, the French food, culture, anything really. Much love!