Big day 2 in Barcelona

After buying our bus tickets to Valencia, we decided to follow the walking tour in our Lonely Planet starting with the Arc de Triumf.

• The Palau de la Musica - free parts impressive but too expensive to tour
• Museu Picasso - got lost trying to find and planned on entering it when it was free (after 3pm) but forgot to go back
• Eglesia de Santa Maria del Mar - huge gothic cathedral, which was closed

Jesus raising the roof on Eglesia de Santa Maria del Mar

• Roman wall - leftover from the time when Barcelona was encapsulated by a wall

• Placa Reial - a shady square with a fountain and lamppost by Gaudi, a famous modernist architect from the early 1900's

•  Casa Batillo - an amazing building designed by Gaudi. The inside also looked amazing from pictures, but way too expensive to tour on a budget.

• La Sagrada Familia - Barcelona's amazing church, designed by Gaudi.  Construction was started in 1909 and won't be completed for another 10 or 20 years.

Our pictures aren't great, so look it up online

That night we switched hostels to one right off of La Rambla.  Dinner was again pasta but we decided to try and go out for drinks and enjoy the nightlife.  Our first attempt started at 10 pm and most of the outdoor cafes required you to eat as well as drink.  But we ended up walking to this cool statue and took pictures.

Attempt two started with us getting a recommendation from our hostel, the Oveja Negra (black sheep).  It took us 45 minutes to find due to not following the directions closely enough, but was worth the perseverance.  It is tucked away on a side street and inside had exposed brick walls and wooden bench tables.  A pitcher of Sangria cost us 12 Euro.

We ended up meeting Adam and Paul from northeast England and they took us to 2 more bars and lots of drinks later before we insisted on going back to our hostel in order to catch our 10 am bus to Valencia.

Paul on the left, Adam on the right.