Barcelona Day 2

Today was an interesting day, and there's a lot to talk about. After breakfast, we took a metro towards cable car station we tried yesterday. At the station, we bought a round trip. After about 30 minutes of waiting at the top of the tower which actually had great views of Barcelona, we got on a 5 minute cable car ride to the other station, providing not only transport from the port to the Mountain, but scenic views of the region. After spending some time at the top of the mountain, we took the trip back, and then went towards the metro. We needed a method to get from our hotel to the airport on Tuesday so we could catch our flight home. We took about two hours and travelled crazily around Barcelona's confusing metro network and we found and tested a method that will take us from the metro station near our hotel to the airport in about 1.5 hours, for only 2.70€. (We could take a taxi for 25€) During our travels in the metro, we had two pickpockets trying to steal from us, and now we know how Barcelonian pickpockets work. After that experience, we were able to identify 2 more pickpockets targetting other people. They were so obvious.

After our preparing for Tuesday, we went to a Picasso Museum, since it was free after 3PM on a Sunday. Although it was crowded, I saw how Picasso's art started extremely good, and eventually turned into art that a third grader could draw. After the art museum, we walked to Spains version of the Arc De Triomphe. It was called Arc De Triomf, had the same shape, and had a similar location. How original. From there, we walked through an unimpressive city park (compared to what we've seen) to get to a metro station to get back to our hotel. From our hotel, we tried Barcelona's beach for the first time. I was amazed. The water was very nice, the beaches were sandy, the waves were perfect, and we spent about an hour as it was getting late. After this good experience, we plan to spend most of tomorrow at the beach, as it will be around 90 degrees all day. After the beach, we took metro to one of the main streets to experience it at night, and then ate dinner at a restaurant that was ideal for our situation. The funny thing is, the restaurant was called "IDEAL RESTAURANT". We didn't notice until we saw the menu.

After dinner, we took metro back to the hotel and now I'm sitting here updating the blog. Tomorrow, we'll be seeinf the Sagrada Familia, then going to the beach for most of the day, and on Tuesday, we'll be taking our flight home. I won't have enough time now to post any pictures, so I'll try to do them tomorrow. I'll end the entry here.