I’m currently writing this at the airport waiting to board my flight
back to Madrid. What a weekend!!! My friends Mallory, Emelia, and I all
went to Barcelona for the first time this weekend and had a blast. Last
weekend when we went to Grananda we took a bus, but we decided it would
be worth it to skip the bus/train and get plane tickets instead (our
flight was only an hour long!!!).
We arrived in Barcelona at 9 in the morning and got to our hotel WAY
too early, but they kept our bags for us and let us use the restroom to
change into our swimsuits for the beach! The beach here is
amaaaaaaazing. We stayed there for at least 3-4 hours and then met up to
eat with some of Mallory’s friends who were also traveling around
Europe.
Later that night we tried some unique vegan food, (Emelia is vegan)
and it was pretty good! The next morning we hit up the beach again, this
time with a lot more sunscreen, and came back to our hotel for a few
hours to nap and take it easy.
We’re lucky because both Emelia and Mallory have friends who have
studied in Spain, so we already had a list of places to visit when we
got here. One of those places was an amazing and delicious Italian
restaurant called De Greco. The food and decorations made you feel like
you were in a 5 star restaurant, but it wasn’t even expensive!!
Today was our last day here before going back to school tomorrow and
entering finals week. We’ve been able to see La Sagrada Famila from the
rooftop pool of our hotel, but this morning we got to see it up close!
It was so beautiful.
We get to Madrid around 9:30 tonight and then I have to work on a group project for class. Wish me luck!!!!
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Follow Anabel on her journey at https://boozabroad.wordpress.com/
To find out more about the U of A Spanish in Madrid summer program, visit http://studyabroad.uark.edu/madrid.
