So I left Eugene at 4am on Friday August 26th and just arrived into Barcelona at 8:30am Saturday morning August 27th. If Colorado and Oregon had a baby, they’d make Spain. It has the rolling hills and grass fields of Oregon, and the mountainous cliffs and rocks of Colorado. It looked beautiful from the plane. So after getting barely any sleep, for some reason I had enough energy to trek through Barcelona for the day.
Culture shock- first, after Holland America forgot my reservation at the hotel (I hope they know I’m coming on the ship!), my room didn’t have any lights and no air! I called the desk and apparently I have to keep my card in this holder in the room so the electricity turns on. Europe…
However, being in Europe for my first time is amazing! I’ve wanted to get over here for a long time. I’m so excited, a little nervous to join the ship, and overall just immensely thankful to be in Europe!
So I think Barcelona does hipster correctly. Portland, LA, Brooklyn- take note. Maybe it’s because they’re European and they don’t really care what anyone thinks, but these hipsters get started young over here. But they’re real hipsters, if you know what I mean..
I spent the day walking around the downtown area where there was amazing architecture and art to look at. There was a great market with smoothies, an overly packed beach with crisp sand and the best shade of blue water, and a bunch of little streets and alleyways that were really cool to walk down. Thank you Gabe, Colton, Mindy, and Mike for giving me some awesome tips on what to do there.
If you can, put Barcelona on your next place to visit. I didn’t have enough time to do a quarter of the stuff everyone suggested me to do, but I’ll be back in port here again and hope to see the other places.
I’m off to the ship in the morning, so I’m sure my next post will be about all the weird rules I learned and playing with the band!
