Beach Day in Barcelona

After getting up early that morning, we took a bus from the train station to the airport. After about a two hour train ride, the six of us were in Barcelona—well, on the outskirts of Barcelona anyway. It took a forty-five minute bus ride from the airport to actually get to the city. And then it took another half hour on the metro before we finally got to our hostel in the city. It was too early to check into our rooms, so the hostel gave us a key to the luggage room and we dropped our bags and changed into swimsuits before heading to the beach.

A lovely view of the Mediterranean Sea from our beach spot in Barcelona!

We were all looking forward to just spending some time laying out on the beach. It was our first day of vacation, and all of us just wanted to take it easy. We were to spend three days in Barcelona, so there was plenty of time to go visit museums and famous sites, so spending a few hours lounging on the beach was the perfect way to start vacation. I mostly just laid out on my towel, enjoying feeling the sun. I did go into the water once—but it was too cold for me, so I only walked in up to my knees, and then I hurried back to my cozy spot on the sand.

Me and Miranda at the top of the rope
pyrmaid. Thanks to Sydney for the picture!

After a few hours, we decided to walk a ways down the boardwalk before heading back to the hostel, finding a place to eat dinner, and then going out for the night. It was a pleasant walk—if we hadn't been surrounded by people that were, for the most part, speaking Spanish, I may have thought I was walking down the boardwalk in Jersey or somewhere else back home. I had to remind myself that I was in Barcelona, walking alongside the Mediterranean Sea. Halfway down the boardwalk, we spotted a small playground that had a jungle gym and a pyramid-type structure made of ropes. Miranda and I decided that we just had to climb it.

 No one else wanted to climb it with us, so they waited on the boardwalk, and Miranda and I hurried over to the little playground. Miranda climbed the rope structure faster than I did, but I got up to the top soon after. It was a cool feeling, sitting atop a rope pyramid on the shore, looking out at the ocean. It was a little harder for me to get down from the rope structure, but I made it (with only a few rope burns). Then we headed further down the boardwalk and, eventually, made our way to the nearest metro station. The rest of the night was quiet—just dinner and a trip to the bar. Half our group went out clubbing, but Miranda, Sophie and I headed back to the hostel—we wanted a bit of an earlier night.