Olé olé Barcelona

After our restless night at the possibly haunted Chateau de Fontager, we had a long bus ride to Barcelona. By the time we arrived, it was already early evening but we had time for a quick city tour in which we were driven around town and shown a few of the city's famous sights so we knew where to find them the following day. That night, Althea and I headed over to the main busy street, La Rambla. It was already 10pm but the locals were just settling down to their dinner as we strolled down the busy street. We sat down and had some Spanish hot chocolate and Churros (Althea's favorite) before heading back to hotel to get a good night's sleep.



Although we had been looking forward to sunny weather in Spain, an unfortunately rainy day awaited us the next day. Our first stop was the Sagrada Familia designed by famous architect Antoni Guadi. According to the original design, this church would be the largest church in the world when completed by as you can see from the picture, it is still currently under construction.



The inside of the church is absolutely breathtaking as well.



We then headed to lunch where we had a delicious champagne sangria before heading out to the streets again to do a little shopping.





Later that night, we watched an intense Flamenco performance and then hit the town for a little bit of partying. We soon learned that the Spainards (and the rest of our Contiki crew) really did party hard which resulted in a pretty rough day after.



Up next: the beautiful French Riviera!