La Tomatina!

After our last breakfast sitting next to all the people at summer camp we said goodbye to our newly acquired 12 year old friends (friends being a very lose term) we started on our train towards Valencia .

We arrived at the campsite and as we were being escorted to our tent we were rampaged by Amy, Orr and Miz. So much running squealing and jumping. We frightened the guy who was taking us to our tent pretty nicely.

We got settled in and talked and went to the beach right by the campsite.

Caitie then arrived at 3am after missing her first flight.

The next morning we were woken up by sun rays and intense heat and had a very  nutritious  breakfast of sugary muffin things and cocopops J

We then headed to the beach and had a chillaxed day altogether

That night we headed to the city centre and went for dinner and had tapas, Paiella and other tasty Spanish food

Usdgfsjdgkasfg We woke up at 6am ready to get out clothes ripped off and throw tomatoes at each other?

We pushed through to the front where we watched this strange tradition where there is a ham on the top of a pole and the pole is covered in butter and the ham needs to be cut down before the tomato festival can start it was pretty crazy and it when on for about an hour but it was really entertaining and this guy everyone names monkey boy ended up cutting the ham down.

You could then start to see huge trucks coming down the street and we where pushed to the side at one point i think i was moving without my feet touching the ground. The tomatoes started to be thrown and then  all of then where streamed out the back on the truck and we where covered in tomato almost up to our thigh this is sadly when i dropped my disposable camera so we don’t actually have any photos from the day. IT was so AMAZINGG

After spending the next hour or so tring to get endless amount of tomato gunk out of our hair we got ready to go to town and have our last night with Caitie before she left us to travel with parents. We went to a bar with amazing music so we danced like complete spastics and when bohemian rhapsody came on shit went down.   

We then went to a couple more bars and walked to the town which is really beautiful.

We woke up at 9am, with two hours before we needed to check out to clean up. 3 hours later we were the last to leave the campsite, after looting all the abandoned stuff people left behind, including a towel, several cans of lemonade, a bag of cookies and shiny white knee high boots.

We left for the station after packing our stuff up which had spread across the campsite and sadly had to say goodbye to Caitie.

Girona, Figueres and summer camp?

After our day of park hopping we decided to make our way to Giron which is an hour train ride North of Barcelona. It was so cute and rustic looking

We explored the old town a bit then came back to the hostel where we met Silca a really nice German girl who we went out to dinner with.

Girona was even prettier at night which gave us the perfect opportunity for a bridge shot.

We woke up bright and early because the free breakfast ended at 9:30 and went to the Jewish museum. Girona has a really interesting medievil history and the museum was really cool and nell got really into this really over acted intense video and was sitting there for about half an hour

We then walked around in "the call" which is the Jewish Quarter

The night we decided to celebrate our 2 month travel anniversary with a big exciting splurge. we had a 3 course meal with bread and wine and we attempted to be posh and speak in vaguely english accents

Pretty sure that meal probably could have fed about 4 people plus a couple starving african children.

The only down side to all the food was the amount of effort it took getting up 3 flights of stairs at the end of the night.
The next day we decied to take a day trip to Figueres which is the home of Dali and has a massive Dali museum.We arrived at the train station and being the cheap geniuses we are, we ignored advice from train station guy and instead of taking a bus 2 stops we attempted to follow the bus to the Dali Museum.. who knew 2 bus stops could be so far away.

On the plus side we found variety store where we found some stylish glasses, bought some much needed superglue and a disposible camera for la tomatina

The museum was really intriguing and kind of trippy.  Dali designed the actual museum itself. Even if you're not a fan of Dali, you cant deny the museum is entertaining.

We stopped back at Girona to get our bags, and had an exciting Spanish conversation at the hostel. After a lot of contradicting directions we were on the train in the direction of St Vincenc de Calders. Too bad we missed the last stop. We had a confusing conversation with the security guard later and stopped for half an hour in the middle of nowhere and finally the train started moving.

I wont go into detail about the few hours but about 2 hours later we found the hostel. It wasnt long until we realised that we had inadvertently crashed a summer camp. I think the fifty 12 year olds and chanting were the give away.
There were more photos but I got in trouble for taking photos of the children and was forced to deleted them...
Weirdest day ever

chubba chubs and Barcelona

We arrived in Barcelon early in the morning ready to crash on a bed or a beach or really anything solid. But of coarse this was not possible because we chose the cheapest hostel with the most complicated direction situated on a massive hill. After alot of confusion, some help from train staff and a very sweaty walk up a very large hill we arrived at our hostel with a really cool view of barcelona city. 

On the plus side of were we were staying there were a riduculous amount of supermarkets so we called it the supermarket district... So we stocked up on food and were off the the pasa de gracia where we followed the guidebooks "must do list " in barcelona and did alot of shopping and got very excited but cheap clothes. And by the end of the day we not only got new clothes but there was hope that me and shanelle would occationally not be matching and people wont think that we are trying to be twins which is really money well spent. 

We then moved on to Boqueria Market where we got overly excited by fruit, crepes and vegtarian tapas and pretty much planned what we were going to eat from there for the next few days.

We then had our much missed staple dish of spagetti with tomato sauce sadly i didnt realise that the spagetti packet was already open so it all fell on the floor so i embarresed myself infront of our new swiss friend and we had pasta with a dirty floor taste twist? 

The next day we went to La Rambla, walked though some cute ally ways,

 saw the concert hall

 and then decided that we were going to be frluent in spanish by then end of our two weeks and so we headed to the port and took out the phrase book we are really bueno!

 We then went to a Gaudi tour around Barcelona we first went to his first commision which was a lamp post and then Casa Batllo, Casa Mila, Palue Guel and  his most famous building segrada fimiliar. 

 Fun Fact of the day:  DID YOU KNOW that Dali designed the chubba chub logo! I got a free chubba chub for guessing :)

 The next day we decided the explore the socalled "beautiful parks of Barcelona" we had some issues finding these parks..

 The map lead us astray..

But what we did find was a really cool graffiti park and we met a graffiti artist from Brazil