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“I`m sorry, we´ve got no room left”

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

thats what Im getting used to hearing now. Everything is always booked out! esp in weekends where everyone takes off to the nice beach places on cheap flights, unfortunate for us backpackers as weekends mean nothing any more. So after I found I had no bed in Barcelona had a bit of a stressful day trying to figure out what to do next. Should I go to France?? No theres atrain strike plus everyone coming from Nice said it was packed. Had no bed for the night so needed to go on an overnight train somewhere so cant go anywhere to close…should I go to San Sebastian…we´ll thats what I want to do but everywhere I ring is full…and everywhere around San Sebastian don´t have any youth hostels….aarrgghhgh dont know what to do!!! Well eventually I thought I might as well get the night train to San Sebastian (North about 9 hours on the beach very close to French boarder) beacause then I can postpone my worrying till at least the next morning. So went off to buy a very expensive train ticket and spent the afternoon eating sandwhich by the sea and went and saw another very amazing Gaudi house. Grabbed my bags from the hostel and took off to catch my night train which I happened to get a bed on which was a nice surprise. The whole sleeper section happened to be full of backpackers heading to San Sebastian who also didnt have any accomodation so that made me feel better!

Had a surprisingly good sleep and arrived around 8am to begin the search for a bed. It was kind of funny after making friends with all these people on the train once we arrived everyone got a bit suspicious that other people might steal their beds so everyone took off very fast!! Kind of funny

Anyway the tourist office directed me to a place a good 30 minutes walk away (with my heavy pack!) and luckily they had some space. Interesting hostel, kind of like a YMCA, big and no common area but clean and has kitchen and awesome free breakfasts. Meet some cool people from Canada and a guy from NZ so we cooked up a huge lunch and then I slept all afternoon. Today was a great day, myself, Ash and Christina (NZ and Canadien) went up to this hill and then walked along the beach. Brought nice food, sat on the beach…it was a really nice day, nice weather, good times. So no need to be worried as things always turn out in the end!

 

and then there was one

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Well I’m back to being by myself again as Mum and Sarita flew out on their stupidly cheap easyjet flight to London this morning. A wee bit sad but should meet up with them for at least a day in Paris. So it’s back to being a solo traveller, onto a VERY strict budget and back to dorm rooms. We had a couple more relaxing days at Una’s, Sarita got to do lots more horse stuff which was good for her and everyone continued to laugh at me because I’m a little bit freaked out by the giant horses that follow you around all the time! Went back into Barcelona with Sarita for another day. Did the shopping thing because Sarita was dying to buy more clothes. Had a very nice lunch at a Vegetarian place with yummy soup and Indian curry, mmmm so good. Also walked around the gothic area a bit and right down the end of La Rambles, a touristy big wide pedistrian street. It has those people statues every few metres down the whole street. Its very odd.

And I brought another digital camera, so now I’m all back on for taking millions of photos, it was actually kind of good not having my digital for awhile because I probably took about half as many photos. We did a bit of a splash out on dinner and went to a very nice tapas restaurant (tapas is what everyone eats in Spain, just little plates of food that you share with people). The food was fantastic, we had deep fryed camembert, roasted vegetables, chicken skewers….yum, then them most amazing desert, chcocalte cake stuff with thick chocolate cause and ice cream with olive oil and salt, sound weird but really really good. basically that day was a very good food day. But no more of that now Mum has gone!

So now I’m in Barcelona again, went with mum to the airport this morning and am back here in a hostel, originally only booked in for one night and decided to stay an extra night but its become all booked out in the last couple of hours!! So now I can’t decide whether to find another hostel or just move on tomorrow. Will decide at the last minute tomorrow I guess! Will be in France by the end of the week and the job thing is looking a bit more promising and could have a nannying job in Paris for a few weeks!

Relaxing in the Spanish, oops I mean Catalonian, country side

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
In Spain if you live in Valencia, your not Spanish you Valencian, if you live in the area around Barcelona its Catalonia, they have they’re own language and sort anal about the whole not being Spanish thing, and then there’s ... [Continue reading this entry]

Valencia part 2: Cirque du Soleil

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Ok…I have a bit more time to write now. So we went to the bullfight, like I said before a bit sick and strange that it still happens. And it’s funny because it’s this big manly sport but they all ... [Continue reading this entry]

I hate computers

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

for those of you worried (dont pretend I know you were) because I havent actually posted anything for ages...if anyone is actually reading this still (yes Grandma I know you are!) anyway I´ve been in the Spainish countryside for a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Bull fights, circus and more old buildings…

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Another overnight bus...I hate overnight buses, actually we almost missed it because we couldnt find a taxi that would take us to the bus station so we arrived 5 mins before the bus left, a bit hectic but luckily we ... [Continue reading this entry]

Granada and the big huge old building

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Granada is basically all about this huge old Islamic/Spainish castle/garden thing called the Alhambra. Apparently its really well known and can be hard to get tickets for, which I feel bit guilty about because Ive never even heard of it! ... [Continue reading this entry]

Europe…for more than one day this time

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Its been a few days since my last post and we´ve crossed over into Spain, into a clean country where stuff works, its kind of nice but soooo expensive. We left Chefchaouen and went to Tangier for one night. It ... [Continue reading this entry]