Our flight from Munich (Well, apparently "West Munich" airport is two hours from Munich, in Menningen) was delayed about an hour, so we missed the last bus to the train station that was going to take us to Barcelona. So we ended up having to take a cab, but we were able to split it between 5 people so it wasn't too expensive.
Our full day in Barcelona was mostly spent exploring the city. We saw the Cathedral, the Sagrada Familia, and the Picasso Museum (Which was very cool). Afterwards we stopped to watch the Spain/Switzerland game, which didn't turn out so well when Switzerland ended up winning 1-0 (Though, we weren't too upset since we all love Switzerland). That night we wandered around town, George was convinced he knew where we were going but we never found it. We did however stumble upon the beach, and jumping into the Mediterranean late at night has been one of the highlights of the trip.
The next day we took the train to Tarragona, a small beach town near Barcelona. It took less than an hour after we arrived for us to end up on the beach. After all the traveling we had done over the past few days, it was really nice to just sit back and relax. The weather was perfect too (Particularly when compared to all the rain we had in Germany). The next day was mostly more of the same, I had a delicious kebab at the Kabana (that's how they spelled it) by the beach, and we watched the US/Slovenia game (2-2, everyone was upset about the blown call). We had dinner afterwards, and while it's not quite Mexican food, Spanish food is very good. I had some very good seafood paella and sangria.
Our last day was spent traveling, though it took a lot longer than it should have. This is because RyanAir, "The On-Time Airline", delayed our flight 3 hours. We didn't get back to Florence till about 10 PM. Sunday was spent recovering from the week of travel, and watching Italy tie New Zealand.
It's now the beginning of the second 3 weeks. I'm taking a Sports Marketing class, which is from 12-2 every day. It seems like it's going to be a pretty interesting class, and we get to go on a field trip to the History of Soccer Museum, and see the practice facilities that the Italy national team use.
That's pretty much it for now... We're going to Venice on Thursday since we don't have class because of a Florence holiday. We are also going to Cinque Terre this weekend, so I'm pretty excited about that.
Ciao,
ae
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