city by the sea
What a place this city is. Where the couples all walk hand in hand and nobody wears long sleeves because it´s too warm outside. Odessa departed back to the states a few days ago and it was sad to see her go, but she is going to have a wonderful summer driving across the states to play bluegrass. Having her here was so wonderful, and now starts this new chapter of Ben and I traveling together. After having not seen one another for over four months and now traveling together for a couple months straight we´ve taken the time to adjust, but Im just happy to be around this familiar face again.
We are currently staying in Las Ramblas, at Pension Dali. Ben has a history of a couple Spanish high school classes and I have a history of traveling through Central America with my sister as my translator but somehow we still get by. We´ve only been here for a couple of days. We missed our flight from London to here because I got us on the wrong train and then realized it, but by the time we were set in the right direction 45 minuted had gone by and we missed our plane and had to spend the night in a hotel by the airport in London Luton. So two days ago when we flew in, we found ourselves with two alaskan born siblings who were going to same direction as us. A women helped us at the train station, she used to live in London and was a good spirit who saw our need for some direction. We then got to Las Ramblas and trecked through the crowds with our big backpacks in search of a hostel. I took in all that we passed trying to get a feel for this city by the sea. It was hot out and everyone was minimally dressed. There were lots of outside restaurants, beautiful spanish women and lots of couples holding hands. A stage was set up with an American rapper (who knows who) was rambling to the audience and trying to learn spanish words to include in his songs. I just laughed at the surrelaism of this event. Really, there are tourists everywhere! But I can understand why, having never been here before, it´s so beautiful and the winding streets and alleys take you for a spin. But all they eat here is meat. We found a good market where we can get some fresh fruit and a falafel place which is very cheap and filling. We might also get set up at an apartment in a couple of days which would be a lot cheaper, one of the people at the hostel ¨knows someone¨ so we will just have to see.
But for now we are just rambling through this city, I think I´ve made up for all of the lack of sleep I´ve had in the past two months. Having no schedule or a clock helps. No alarms to go by except the church bells that go off every hour to remind you that time is passing by.
We are currently staying in Las Ramblas, at Pension Dali. Ben has a history of a couple Spanish high school classes and I have a history of traveling through Central America with my sister as my translator but somehow we still get by. We´ve only been here for a couple of days. We missed our flight from London to here because I got us on the wrong train and then realized it, but by the time we were set in the right direction 45 minuted had gone by and we missed our plane and had to spend the night in a hotel by the airport in London Luton. So two days ago when we flew in, we found ourselves with two alaskan born siblings who were going to same direction as us. A women helped us at the train station, she used to live in London and was a good spirit who saw our need for some direction. We then got to Las Ramblas and trecked through the crowds with our big backpacks in search of a hostel. I took in all that we passed trying to get a feel for this city by the sea. It was hot out and everyone was minimally dressed. There were lots of outside restaurants, beautiful spanish women and lots of couples holding hands. A stage was set up with an American rapper (who knows who) was rambling to the audience and trying to learn spanish words to include in his songs. I just laughed at the surrelaism of this event. Really, there are tourists everywhere! But I can understand why, having never been here before, it´s so beautiful and the winding streets and alleys take you for a spin. But all they eat here is meat. We found a good market where we can get some fresh fruit and a falafel place which is very cheap and filling. We might also get set up at an apartment in a couple of days which would be a lot cheaper, one of the people at the hostel ¨knows someone¨ so we will just have to see.
But for now we are just rambling through this city, I think I´ve made up for all of the lack of sleep I´ve had in the past two months. Having no schedule or a clock helps. No alarms to go by except the church bells that go off every hour to remind you that time is passing by.
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