Barcelona
Barcelona!!! What a beautiful city. Michael and I decided we could live there, except we don’t speak the crazy language. I can (barely) get by in Spanish, and while they do speak some Spanish there, the primary language is Catalan, which is a Latin derivative, but only bears a slight resemblance to Spanish. At first, I thought my language skills had just completely declined, but I felt a little smarter when I realized what was going on. I always knew the language was a little different, but I thought it was a Spanish dialect, and it is actually a completely different language. It was also interesting to note that unlike a lot of other European cities, there were not as many English speakers as usual.
We arrived on Saturday night around 8pm and headed toward the bed and breakfast. Having never stayed in a B&B before I was curious to see how the whole thing would go. At the end of the trip I decided it was OK, but I hate not having my own bathroom… there were 5-6 bedrooms and we shared 2 bathrooms. Usually it wasn’t a problem, and I am sure it is more environmentally friendly than having 800 bedrooms and 800 bathrooms, but it just seems kind of awkward to walk out of the bathroom with just your towel wrapped around you to come face to face with some poor couple trying to eat their breakfast. On the plus side though, I did get to see a potbellied, 75 year old Canadian guy in the nude. So that was awesome.
Back to Saturday night… we were both pretty tired upon arrival so we decided to head to bed. Speaking of beds… in Europe, as a general rule, the beds just plain suck. Springy, wiry, lumpy… all the negative words you can associate with a bed… they all apply. And this place was the king of bad beds… we had 2 beds pushed together to form one big bed and it was the bumpiest lumpiest of them all! On the plus side, the room came with free breakfast, which was really good! Lots of fruit and this really good sweet bread. We also got the chance to meet several couples, of which we were the youngest by a good 30 years.
I am off to bed now, so you will all have to wait for the next chapter tomorrow!
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