New friends and new beginnings..

With a couple of weeks to explore the city..we ended up spending time bonding with some of the people that live in our flat. We have found out that names in a different language, when you don't speak the language can often be quite difficult to pronounce and therefore we have ended up referring to the people in our flat by their country. Horrible I know..but they like it! It will always remind them of us! So we have America, Fenchie, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Majorca (known as David because it's easier) and then the three England girls...Sophie, Emily and myself.

Flat 'English Roast Dinner'

 Already we have bonded so much, not just as a flat but as a group of friends, and have already planned trips to visit each other later on in the year. It's so good that I have not only found a city that I love, but also people that I love to share it with. Very lucky to share such a fabulous experience with such amazing people. 

The first couple of weeks took us to various places that you would not perhaps find in a Barcelona guide book, but that you come across by chance when exploring the city. 

Walking around Juame 1 one evening, brought us across a very strange art exhibition, that you would only find in the backstreets of a upside down city or in an open room in the middle of fine art at chelsea!!!! Obviously foil covered walls and a darth vader dressed man welcoming you in meant you could not pass without noticing. However when stepping inside and wandering around the tiny brick covered room, made you feel a little bit of home..even if it was in a weird, wacky, wonderful way! After writing a few comments in the book and adding my email to the mailing list, we will be able to return to the inspiring crazy room at some point before we leave. 

The weekend brought us to the chocolate museum ( as they don't do very nice chocolate in Spain, we thought it might be the one place we might be able to get some), where the museum entrance ticket was infact a chocolate bar! 

Even if we don't get to see the whole of the city, atleast we will have seen the whole city out of chocolate!!!