yes, as the title implies, I am back.
Barcelona was amazing, so beautiful, the architecture, the harbor, the little medieval streets, the cafes, the bars, the clubs… me and susi hit the Barcelona streets with a guide book and an open mind and ended up doing quite a lot in the space of 3.5 days really… here is a summary of each day.
Monday 9th July
We arrive in the evening around 8 pm and finally find our hostel after walking round in circles in the area, to find that we lost our beds since they app. do not accept my card and I needed to call them. Bullocks. So we are left to organize a last-minute accommodation in a heavily touristed city on a busy season. Not easy. Thanks to susi’s awesome boyfriend, who finds it for us, we get a great room for two in a really nice 3 star hotel (with mini fridge and everything!) for hostel price! niiice…
Tuesday 10th July
The morning consists of stressy msn:ing and phoning to organize a hostel for the next nights. It is solved by some great team work between me, susi and stefan, it is a really cool place two streets from Las Ramblas, the famous street, it was literally close to 80% of the good stuff! I am truly grateful to Stefan though, we couldn’t have done it without him. The room has three levels, a kitchen, bathroom, flat screen tv.. Oh and getting off the Metro at Las Ramblas, we notice that there are loads of ppl packed around a particular bit of the street, taking pics with their phones etc.. oh yes its bloody Woody Allen filming and Scarlett Johansen is right there being filmed! Its a strange old world…
After that tiresome morning, ahem, we decide to leave touristing for the next day and head off to our heaven on earth, the beach. It is lovely, good looking ppl, indecent ppl, tourist ppl, spanish ppl… The water wasn’t warm but it wasn’t too cold either, had some nice wave action (there were loads).
The evening consisted of a stroll around the place, following the guide for tips but ending up in really cool places that we found ourselves. Barcelona, even though a monday, was buzzing and the crowd was as trendy as the places hehe. We decide not to club it after walking for ages to one to then find out it doesn’t open on mondays..
Wednesday 11th July
We wake up to a day full of touristing. We visited a Chocolate Museum, Place de Catalunya, tasty paellas, Barri Gottic and its La Seu (the gothic cathedral) was unfortunately covered in building works, some real spanish paella….quite a productive day if you ask me! The Chocolate Museum was so original, you found out the story of chocolate from its discovery in Southern America to this queen that started the chocolate ‘bon-bon’s’…from all human kind. Thank you. MACBA (cont. art place) which did not look promising on its first floor but turned out really interesting on the others, they don’t hold a permanent collection, its always exhibitions. It’s huge and white as well, 4 floors and each is a myriad of rooms with installations, photography, films in little “cinema rooms”, tv screens..Quite exciting indeed.
The night starts with the usual cool hang outs, but this time we found that a recommended club was actually open! And there was quite a line! We chatted to this drunken Swede, and watched in amusement how he tried to chat up these short Australians that he first insulted by calling Americans…ouch..
Moog was the name, there were 2 floors, not big at all, one playin electro/house/such like while the other played retro stuff, like The Cure! 
Tres bien! We danced the night away in a drunken delirium..
Thursday 12th July
Another day of touristing, which starts embarrassingly late, shhh, so we accomplish La Sagrada Familia(Gaudi’s masterpiece under construction) that leaves you breathless because it is so unique, so organic and stunning… Les Quatre Gats (the modernista hang out), a truly art-nouveau cafe and after that decide to enjoy a last dip in the sea, the beach it tres important! Walking sitting at a table talking drinking ‘Sex on the bar’ n watching the calm sea and then back down along the harbor with the setting sun and salty skin..really doesn’t get any more holiday heaven than that 
We were not going to go out too late so that we can wake up early for touristy things the last day and get those tattoos…. Ahem. We ended up seeing a gig literally across the street from our hostel in a secret club, eating tapas at 1 am and then going back to that club (where hostel guests get in for free btw. VIP us ) and raving it until 4 am in running away from tight white tshirts and pervy shirt guy between the smoking/retro room and the non-smoking trendy music room… good times..
Friday 13 July
Last day 
( we pack and head out to squeeze that last Barcelona good time that we can before our flights. We manage see some Gaudi houses, Casa Ballto and La Pedrera, both stunning and I decide I will live in one of them one day. You mark my words.
Then we go and get our tattoos….P A I N. But it’s so pretty that I am prepared to look past that… Susi gets a sun thingy on her hip and it looks hotttt, I got my bloody ankh with wings that I have been nagging friends about for ages. And yes it was bloody, went through my white shirt. Nice. Went round with a bloody shirt for ages. Now that is hottt. :/
After that we grabbed a bite to eat and went to the airport… Game over.
Friday July 13th 22.32
Post-vacation blues.
