Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Answer is No

After many weekends away in Amsterdam and in Valencia, this was my first weekend to be back in Barcelona. I couldn't have asked for better weather, and now it is officially beach time. The one problem with the beaches here are that people try to sell  things while I am trying to take in the Spanish sun. I literally need a giant NO sign next to me at all times. No to the creepy men walking around yelling, beer, cerveza, coca cola, ( all of these are code for drugs) or the Asian women walking around asking if i want a message. If all of these people would go away it would just be perfect. I have spent my weekend eating great paella on the beach, shopping for summer clothes at H&M, and exploring other parts of Barcelona like the Born district. I also finally had great sushi in the Gracia neighborhood. Tomorrow I am off to Las Fallas aka a fire festival in Valencia. I was there at the beginning of Las Fallas next week, and it is a beautiful beach city where everyone comes together to burn stuff. This means little kids throwing poppers and fire crackers left and right. It is similar to Mardi Gras and has to do with clubs the people belong to. Each club has a tent party and they build Giant Statues. I am going for tomorrow when they burn these statues down. Since  I really hate fire and don't love huge crowds of people but hey you only live once. I will post more after and hopefully wont loose any eyebrows to these crazy fires. Besos