On our last day of Barcelona we decided to check out Park Guell which we had heard so much about. It was a complicated journey as we had to take a metro to a bus and that's never fun. However when we got there we realized that it was all worth it. Park Guell is basically Barcelona's Montmartre. You can see all of Barcelona from up on that hill and where in Paris Montmartre is cute little shops, Park Guell is like a step back in time. I kept feeling like I was in Disney World or at some resort because this is what all of those resorts are trying to evoke. It was just so weird for it to be real. There were flowers and ruins and little paths up hills and cute houses. The best was all of the mosaic artwork that was all over walls and ceilings. We even saw this never ending tunnel ruin which models walked down on an America's Next Top Model finale (with Caridee for those die hard fans).
After checking out the park for a couple of hours and eating home made nutella and jelly (no peanut butter in europe) sandwiches, we decided to go to the beach.
At 4 we had to leave the beach to start our travel back to Paris. We took a metro to a train to a plane to a bus to a metro and I was terrified that something would go wrong and I would end up stuck somewhere but we made it to Paris in one (very tired) piece. All in all Barcelona exceeded my expectations and I have returned a still equally pale world traveler (kind of).
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