6/10: Travel Day!

Well, gee. Sunday was quite the day. After surviving a nasty hangover, Brett and I got packed up and headed out for our last lunch in the Green, then picked up our packs from the luggage room at Avalon House and went in search of the airport bus. It´s a good thing that we left really early for the bus station because we walked around for over an hour going back and forth and shit trying to the find the bus stop. It was just ridiculous. And HOT. I had totally sweated out the back of my shirt and stuff and I felt all sticky and in need of a shower. When we finally got onto the bus, we ended up on NOT the express airport bus, which sucked because it was TOTALLY full and we were all in the way and unwieldy with our huge packs in this hot, cramped, packed bus that stopped every 30 seconds. So needless to say it took us a while to get the airport. However, flying with Air Lingus was a pleasure and a breeze, aside from the 45 minute delay before our flight took off and the inexplicable demand that we all unbuckle our seatbelts right before we taxi´d out to take off.

Got into the Barcelona airport and picked up our bags, went over to the information area to find out how to get to La Rambla, and witnesed a lady get her ankle broken by an unruly and unsafely long line of luggage trolleys slamming her into a counter. She had this weird wail when she got hit. Anyway, got on the bus, which ended up being packed too (even at 22:30!) but we got on before it was crowded so we had seats and stuff! Got dropped off and knew we had a bit of walking to do, but we ended up going the wrong direction and walked literally almost a mile before we turned around, then went another wrong way, then finally found La Rambla and walked far far far down it to get to our hostel. I was afraid they would drop our reservation or it would be closed, but it was HOPPING! This is one happening hostel. Everyone was hanging out, playing pool and stuff, drinking cheap beer from the bar in the hostel, etc. Wow. At like 12:30 am. Got settled in, put our stuff down, and had some beers and took some cool pictures before heading to bed at like 2:30. I really really really like this hostel!

Update on Monday coming later.