Barcelona – 26/6

Barcelona – 26/6 – Kabul Backpackers 4 bed dorm

Arrived in Barcelona airport, led Liz and myself to an airport bus service to us to Catalunya Plaza, walked down Las Ramblas which is the main strip covered in small stalls and restaurants to Plaza Reial – Kabul Backpackers. 

Liz was a bit jet lagged having traveled on a later flight. I went down and had my 2^nd beer for the day in the lobby, and met Jake and 3 others from Perth started drinking with them whilst playing pool. 

Later that night we went to First Bar, just outside of the square, were we played celebrity heads and got blind before going to Bikini and we met Megan and Ash, as Megan travelled in our cab and were a really cool couple that had travelled eastern Europe by night train and drove across the French Riveria in a car - so many amazing stories from these guys!

When we go to the club, it was filled with black guys being an RnB club. The music was mostly terrible and the vodka sodas were 20euro, but at least filled to the top with a splash of soda, courtesy of the free pour.

Barcelona – 27/6 Kabul Backpackers 4 bed dorm

In the morning I found out that Jake had sleep walked and pissed in his 10bed room, then drunkenly jumped up and down in it only to finally get up onto her bed with her still in it and pass out and start snoring.

Went on a hung-over city roam towards the beach with Jake, Kane, Blake and Alix, had breakfast at a café where a juggling street performer asked me to get up and assist him, hungover and drunk from the 1 litre of sangria I had just consumed, I climbed up, one foot on each shoulder and he stood up and balanced all 92kilo of me. We then bumped into Megan and Ash, who tagged along, paid 11euro to take the scenic cable car ride over the harbour to the side of a hill/park area, had a few beers overlooking the city and walked back to the hostel.

Later that night we went to Chupitos a 500 shot bar, we smashed 10 different shots before I left them and went to Bling Bling with Kristy and Katie, had an awesome night only to wake up hungover as hell and realising we both had 30mins to check out.

Barcelona – 28/6 Kabul Backpackers borrowed beds 22bed dorm

Put my bag in storage, followed the girls to Maccas where I realised I wasn’t going to go to Ibiza with them so I frantically bailed back to the hostel hoping I’d see them later, and tried to book another nights accommodation, which was fully booked. So I was freaking out, and hungover as hell not knowing where I was going to sleep, introduced myself to Ellie Harris in the lobby, and I whinged about having no bed etc, she looked after me, showed me the markets with Aline from Brazil.
Got back to the hostel with Ellie and I met Andrew the Canadian who introduced himself the two of us then went to the beach and met some crazy other Canadians Dave and Liam, who were clothing importers.

We continued to drink sangria and beers with them, then got food on Las Ramblas and tried the 89.9% Absinthe I bought, we all felt pretty drunk and hazy. To the point after paying the bill we stood up walked a few paces on to turn around and realise we had lost them.

Went on the hostel bar crawl, still with no bed for the night and had to get changed in the storage room, I lost Ellie and Andrew and went back to the Hostel and started talking to Fernanda, Jenn, and another girl Elle, felt like I was battling too hard to manage to go out to the club. So I convinced her to lend me her bed for a few hours whilst she was out clubbing. 4 hours later she came back and woke me up. Still half asleep and dazed I walked out and down the stairwell where I bumped into Fernanda who felt sorry for me and allowed me to share her bed.

Barcelona 29/6 Kabul Backpackers 8 bed dorm

2 cancelations allowed me to book a bed for the night in the morn. Went to the beach with Andrew and Ellie, a few Sangrias and a swim.

Drank back at the hostel happy hour with Andy and two guys from Perth, Andy got pretty wasted before we even left, then we all went out to a huge multi-level club Razzmatazz. We all had an amazing night.

Barcelona 30/6 Kabul Backpackers 22 bed dorm

Booked another night online, opted for a 22 bed dorm to see what all the fuss was about, also booked a fast train to San Sebastian. Ellie then convinced us to do something with our day so we tried to book Sagrada Familiar chapel. We had lunch on Las Ramblas with Ellie, Andy, and Morgan an Amerian chick. 1 litre steins of sangria and a reasonable chicken salad.

Andy and I took the Metro to Diagnol to see Gaudi’s hotel, then another trip to Sagrada Familiar. Which was nothing short of amazing.  We got back to the hostel to drink happy hour and Andy started talking to a Texan named Aliza, taxied it Opium beach club, good venue that had the best sax player to the house music - simply epic, we left after a dance and realising the place was a full of wannabe wankers to have a few beers on the beach at 3am. Jenn and I taxied back to the hostel after losing the other two.