Barcelona Based Banter

After watching the breakage of Miha's bed live, then being slapped senseless by Anneli and then stepping my way round the sticky beer areas on the floor, talking to a hippy, and a thoroughly unsuccessful trip to the kebab shop, I got up 4 hours later to go to Barcelona. Ok, so having my wallet stolen on the first night in the Catalan capital wasn't ideal, but at least I chased the bastard down and got it back!





Barcelona is possibly one of the most awesome cities in the world. I went to the beach and went swimming in the freezing sea, I saw the Nou Camp (girls, that's the Barcelona football stadium) and had my pictures taken next to the pitch and the 6 trophies they won last season, I did a pub crawl which ended with me, Sam and Matt darting down the back alleys off La Rambla at 5.30am to escape a crazy American called Tyger McGee, I spent my last night in a hostel with a rather fat American girl vomming up her guts in the bed next to me about a metre from my face, I watched the CL final, and obviously saw all the main sights, before buying possibly the best T-shirt ever. Unfortunately, wearing this latest purchase on 6 different forms of transport on the way home possibly wasn't the best idea, as I got a number of awkward looks.













Unfortunately, as amazing as this trip was, it has pretty much bust my bank account meaning that the dream trip to Tromso to experience 24 hour daylight is now not likely. But plenty to look forward to anyway - in roughly 180 hours - not that I'm counting, I will seeing Killing in the name of, by Rage against the machine, live in Nuremberg. I won't mind too much if I die in the moshing process, as seeing them was my number one aim in life. Also very much looking forward to Southside, the pre-Southside party and the visit of Ollie and Macca to Konstanz, including the possibility of a day trip to Liechtenstein. I filled out one of those Where I've Been maps on Facebook yesterday, there're still so many European countries I need to visit, though all I can say is, hopefully they'll be a little less sketchy that Barca.

It's good to be back in K-town now. I realise that with all the travelling I've been doing, I don't think I've spent 2 weekends in a row in this place, and I have to go home in 2 months, so I'm determined to make the most of this amazing place and the amazing people. Looking forward to a bit of Kantine fun with Bene and Nadine heute Abend. Gotta love the mentors.