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This blog is kind of like all the diaries I have started and eventually the entries taper off.. But I have been busy! I went to Barcelona last weekend and this weekend I just got back from a province called Extremadura, and they both were great trips. I had been to Barcelona before when I was in London, but it is definitely a city I don't mind going to more than once. I went with Amanda and Jessica and we stayed in a really cool hostel in the middle of the city and we woke up each morning and looked in the guide book and picked what we wanted to do, and then did everything. It was such an efficient and enjoyable trip for that reason; we weren't frantically wandering around trying to stumble upon things. The best part of Barcelona: The Bagel Shop. When we saw that in the guidebook we all freaked out. The bagels were really good and we actually went there twice (tried to go three times in total haha) and it was good to have familiar food. And we did all the sights, Sagrada Familia, beach, Park Güell, La Rambla, etc.. Amanda had a friend from Barcelona that we met up with and practiced spanish, and jessica had a friend from high school that was studying there too so we had a social weekend one might say.. Anyway, Barcelona was good.
Extremadura is in the south and goes up to the Portugal border. It's basically beautiful farm country. For me, the highlight was Saturday. It was gorgeous warm sunny weather and we went to this nature preserve in the middle of nowhere and hiked around and had a lovely lovely time, and then we went to another city and got to see really extensive Roman ruins that were really super cool. It was the city that the main character from Gladiator is from in the movie. And then at night we went to Guadalupe and stayed in a monastery, that was really neat.
Perhaps i will elaborate a bit more later, but right now I am exhausted and cannot write anymore.
Chris arrives tomorrow! Just in time for the real spring weather too, it's supposed to be 70 this week!