Spain: Barcelona and Palma Mallorca

Barcelona turned into one of the wildest experiences of my life. Not only were there riots going on, not violent, but just hundreds of people camped out in tents and dressed up in strange outfits holding random artifacts and posters to gain attention but the first night we were there Barcelona played Manchester United in the final soccer match of the season and WON. I was in a local bar watching on las Ramblas, I guess you could say the equivelent of a times square, and literally within seconds thoussands of people flooded the streets, fireworks were going off, bands were playing, traffic was stopped and every car was honking, people were lighting things on fire, climbing up traffic lights, it was complete mayhem I forever feel like I am a Barcelona fan after just experiencing the utter excitment and countries pride in athletics it was truly surreal.

The following day we took a bus tour through the entire city where you could hop on and off at different locations, we spent 10 hours on the bus. My favorite stops was the Olympic Stadium from the 1992 Olympics, the Barcelona Stadium, Park Guell - a park completely made of mosaic benches and statues, truly amazing, and the Sagranda Familia, a really beautiful strangely designed church. It was about 90 degrees so sitting on top of an open topped bus was scorching but it was so cool to see everything. The food was delicious too, paella filled with huge prawns, baby lobsters, and mussels and all different kinds of tapas, and home made sangria.

After Barcelona we took a 20 minute flight over to Palma Mallorca one of the Balaeric Islands sadly the weather didn't cooperate for the next 4 days of our stay but we still saw a lot of the islands everything from the beautiful beaches to the old town and port which were filled with spanish architecture, but surprisingly more British food and inhabitants. Evidently, it is a huge British vacation spot so I was able to get one more serving of fish and chips before leaving Europe and was also able to communicate with just about everyone. It was a beautiful island and had it been hotter and not rainy totally would of been the perfect beach vacaction but despite the weather we still explored and went to a katy perry cover artist concert, walked the beaches, went out on a mile long pier, and enjoyed the architecture of the old town. I liked it, but wish we would of spent more time in the big city of Barcelona.