After our Irish night out in Barcelona, we had a couple of really lazy days in the sun resulting in both of us taking on that sunburnt tourist look. Never a good thing. On our last day in Barca we were invited on to a yacht by an Australian girl we had met in Marseille. This turned out to be one of the best days of the trip. The boat was incredible, everyone (the crew and the girls grandad and friends) was really friendly and the weather was perfect. We spent most of the afternoon out on the sea, had an amazing buffet-style lunch, and then took cablecars up to the castle by the coast, which had fantastic views. All I can say is that I'm ridiculously grateful and so lucky to have had a day like that.
Leaving Barcelona was less glorious. We found out that the overnight train was around 50euros even with our interrail tickets, so we waited till the next train at 7am the following day. Unfortunately for us the station closed for 5 hours at around midnight, resulting in us wandering aimlessly around an area of Barca we didn't know. Nothing terribly eventful happened though, and we spent some time chatting to a random Spanish guy who seemed to want to start an artist's revolution in a small suburb in Barcelona. We eventually got to Paris and tracked down the flat of a different group of girls from Marseille who'd offered us somewhere to stay. Since then we've spent a day exploring Paris and seeing some of the main sights. The Louvre is beautiful and very interesting and I really wish I could've spent more time there. In the evening we went to a couple of bars with the girls and some of their friends and had a really good time.
Now we're off to our last country of this trip, on the last day of our interrail tickets: Amsterdam!
Rob x
Hey y'all,
As Rob mentioned we both embodied the angry lobster look in barca, I think as some kind of karma for laughing at the silly sunburnt tourists. It was great being back there after I visited last summer, and the yacht day was incredible. When you're parking your yacht next to Roman Abramovich's after having a gourmet buffet of the coast of Barcelona you know you've done allright for yourself. And therein lies the importance of being nice to strangers.
We left Barcelona in a slight state of shock at the brilliance of the time we had there, but the giddy 'i'm on a boat' chorus we sang out soon gave way to a much more restrained mood as we shared biscuits on a bench at 3am. But it's all part of the expeience, right?
Paris went quickly, but was fun never the less. We stayed with two English girls on a year abroad, staying right in the centre of Paris as part of their French degrees. The Louvre was incredibly impressive, and free as we're both under 26, I'm not sure we can adorn ourselves with the reputation of distinguished art critics yet though as our conversations mainly centred around the phrases: 'that's cool' or 'that's old'. The Louvre is fantastic though, with Egyptian artifacts, mock apartments of Louis XVI, the Venus de milo and mona lisa all being under one roof and free. We wandered upthe champs élysées and took the metro over to the Eiffel Tower. The tower in the centre of St Albans has a clock on it, but you know, I'm sure the eiffel is allright too, if you like that kind of thing.
Having been walking for a good few hours inside, while it was sunny, it was somewhat unfortunate that within an hour of us leaving the Louvre the heavens opened and we got soaked. The 2 for 1 cocktails and fairly cheap beer that night(yes,cheap drinks are out there to be had even in Paris) made up for the weather though. We even learnt some French, '20 metres that way' is French for 'half an hour somewhere in that general direction'.
Today we made it to Amsterdam relatively easily, with Paris leaving me assured of two things: that I wanted to return, and that a small dog in a bag is not an acceptable look, ever, even if you're french.
Hope you're all well and that arrangements for our welcome back party on Wednesday are going smoothly,
Ollie x
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