Next, about my AMAZING trip to Barcelona, Spain. Well, it wasn't that amazing, but I loved the place anyway. It was sunny and warm and bright, but with killer chilly winds. We did a lot of sightseeing and park visits. I just love the parks, where you could sit on the grass and do anything in the world. I chose to write postcards while the others took naps. Well, anyway, here are some pictures and more stories along with it.
Cushion beds right in the middle of Eindhoven airport for people to rest on
Just landed: Umit, Yixian, me and Chengwei (holding the camera). Actually we weren't allowed to take pictures near the plane but we didn't know and we were fast!
Glorious sun in the Barcelona sky
Street acts along La Ramblas. None are statues. Neat, huh!
Ronaldinho lookey-likey!
Edward Scissorhands!
This man ought to fit right in on the NUS Rag Day
And along the way we started to hear some guys sing what-I-think-is-the-BarcelonaFC-anthem really loudly. When we took a closer look, we realised that it was because they saw another bunch of guys (older, REALLY FAT men) wearing Liverpool jerseys. I guess people here are really supportive of their own football teams and not tolerant of other FC supporters. Then the Liverpool guys started singing THEIR anthems. But the two groups were walking past one another in different directions, so unfortunately we didn't get to see any action or fights breaking out.
Cute, sweet and pretty little florets
Decorative umbrellas on one of the buildings
Wonderful street artist's work
Peep Show and Sex Shop. We took a look and they were selling sex toys and a lot of porn. Didn't go inside the peep show shop though coz you had to pay.
The end of La Ramblas led us to the marina/pier
It was quite scary for me to sit so close to the edge. But for the sake of my loyal blog readers, I did it for you!
The market place, yummy!
Condom vending machine. Cool, yeah?
Food was rather expensive there, so the first day, we had Mc Donald's for lunch and Burger King for dinner. Talk about the evils of fast food! Same price, different currency.
Our room at the Backpacker's Hostel. We were lucky coz they didn't have enough rooms, so we got free upgrades to one of their apartments. I like the interior. It was cozy and colourful (who else but the Spanish would be bold enough to have these colours on their walls?).
One gross thing though, was that I found a huge condom (looked used) in the otherwise empty waste basket. Eww!
Check out the size of these huge-ass strawberries which we got at the market! It was only Eur1.99 for 1kg! We later found out why.. it got quite bad the next day. Wasted.
Will post entries on Days 2 onwards when I get the pictures (I only had a 256MB memory card which filled up on the second day).
