Barça

So, let's start with Friday. Of course, I didn't sleep well Thursday night. I was up late packing, stressing, worrying, and such. This always seems to be the story before a big day of traveling. I had to pack my toiletries Friday morning and I was off to the train station. I was in such a rush Friday morning that I unfortunately didn't get to eat breakfast.

Well, before explaining my trip so far, I want to give you an overview of we had planned. I am traveling with my Finnish friend, Anna, to Barcelona from Friday until Thurdsay. We left Grenoble at 11:00am on Friday and arrived in Barcelona at 9:00pm. We arrived an hour later than expected. That was such a long day of traveling. We are leaving bright and early on Thursday at 8:00am and expected to return to Grenoble around 5:30pm.

So, we took the bus from Grenoble to Valence TGV. It took us about an hour and a half to get there. There, our train to Montpellier was delayed 15 minutes. It didn't really matter, since we had an hour and half wait at Montpellier for our train to Barcelona. We got to Montpellier, searched desparately for food, found a kebab place to get food, and then returned to the train station to find out that our train was canceled. We talked to the 'accueil' and they said to take the next train to Perpignan. From there, we could get the train to Barcelona. So, we were again delayed another half hour to wait for the train to Perpignan. At Perpignan, it was a bit of a choatic rush, as we only had 10 minutes to change trains. We got on the train and about a couple seconds later, it started leaving. The train from Perpignan to Barcelona took about 5 hours. WAY TOO LONG. When we finally got to Barcelona, the hostel was nice enough to send someone to pick us up. We received a ride to the hostel, with a little driving tour of the city. It was so nice of the hostel owners.

This hostel has been nothing but amazing. They have really gone out of their way to make our time in Barcelona really special. I'll update later on what we did today, yesterday, and this ABSOLUTELY AMAZING HOSTEL. Barcelona Central Garden!