Barcelona!

I am now in Barcelona!

I actually arrived yesterday due to a mishap in communication.  Karime accepted me on a last minute request.  When I looked at her profile it had said Calella so I had planned my ride to stop there.  But while on the road she messaged me and said she actually lived in Barcelona so I did about 50km more.  In any case I arrived around 6:30pm after doing my longest ride of about 130km.

I met up with her and her boyfriend Sam.  They are super friendly and Karime is Colombian Spanish while Sam is Italian Spanish.  They used to live in Calella but now for the summer they are in Barcelona. 

They took me around the city on our bikes and we saw many attractions in just one day.  Barcelona is such a big city and it was all very wonderful but also overwhelming at the same time.  I think in 1 week I will have a better sense of everything. 

Today Karime went to work and Sam and I visited his friend who was at the velodrome.  We saw a film being made there about the Spanish Olympian of bicycles and saw them practice in the dome. 

In the evening we plan to check out the park again and have a picnic there. 

amazing beautiful fountain at parc de la Citudella

Karime and her friends 

Magic fountain

I am standing ontop of a old Bullfighting areana which has been converted into a shopping mall. 

Sam and Karina taking me around the city. 

French station so named after the exodus of Spanish people into France.

Giant mammoth at Parc de la Citudella 

Peace from Barcelona.