Barcelona II - Nights out in BAR-CE-LO-NA

Barcelona at night is equally gorgeous. Like all big cities, it never seems to sleep and there's a different sort of culture to experience at night.

We signed up for Flamenco Night - A night of spanish dancing & tapas! OLA!!!

How much the night costed us in euros

What was left of my euros after registration

But it was all good~ *one thumb up*
I only gave one thumb up bcoz they gave us sucky sucky tapas. Tapas are very famous spanish appetizers. The itenary said 'all you can eat' but they had limited portions and only TWO types of tapas! FUCK U MAN.

Fruit punch which I think had a hint of alcohol

We met SuJin backpacking alone on the trip! I salute ppl like 'em.

See what I mean?? Wtf , el cheapo french bread + salsa & pepperoni on top. wtf man, how can 6 starving tourist have this measley meal for dinnner???????

Hard as rock summore.

This was good though but its just fried potatoes with salad dressing

The view outside the restaurant was gooorgeeous though. I love the night colours

After dinner, they brought us over to a famous Flamenco bar, Tarantos, to watch Flamenco dancing!!

Gaudi inspired!

The flamenco dancing....wow...more than made up for the pathetic dinner. It makes you wish you were born spanish!!

You can't see it in the photos but the dancing spanish lady had weird lipstick make-up. She coloured her lips nude and lined the outer lip with black eyeliner @_@ . Must be some spanish tradition thingy.


On yet another night, we visited the the Barcelona Pier which people have been telling us its worth a visit.

See Barcelona's traffic lights for pedestrians are uber cute!

We had dinner first at one of our favourite hangout places in Barcelona called "TravelBar", one of the few places in Barcelona where the waiters can speak good english!

Everyone else was busy talking about politics so Suwen & I drifted off on our own...

Wah liew so gung ho dude.

There was this weird building we saw on the way to the pier...

This was the inside of the building. Oddly enough when we walked in further the place turned out to be a pub @_@

The pier is upahead

wtf la. To be honest when I saw it, I was thinking "Singapore's Clark Quay looks so much better! This is seriously overrated."


The only thing worth seeing was two men making out and snuggling up to each other while overlooking the pier...........

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HAHA! Bet you expected to see a photo of them making out! Nah my dirty, tired, dusty feet from a whole day's worth of walking!!!!

"♥"

Oh! Before I continue on I must talk about the youth hostel we stayed at. Its a bit far the city centre, about 25minutes on the tube but the stay was sooo fun it was worth it!

Beds are bunk-bed style and its common showers but the concept is uber cool. There are board games;

Free breakfast every morning, a chance to mix with other tourist!

They sell cheap beer too at night, as well as a very useful chocolate/coffee machine.

The Outside:

And they decorated the whole place with artwork tourist leave behind, these are some of my absolute favs..

On the 2nd last night of our stay in Barcelona, we decided to all get dolled up after having had enough of being covered in grime & sweat the whole day. Time to try some REAL SPANISH DISHES!!

We all tried Paellas!!!!

The rice is a gorgeous goey+sticky texture and I loved the saltiness of it!

(* I typed 'saltyness' just now but somehow it didn't feel right so I googled it. Mana tahu! Definition of saltyness is: penis, phallus, knob, willy, dick, cock. YOU just learnt a new word today)

My Squid Ink Paella. Black teeth after that but who cares.Fuckin delish!

We came back exhausted, but when everyone went to sleep Sha & I gatal tangan so we drew a small momento of Barcelona to leave behind in the youth hostel.

Believe it or not, we searched through the guestbook and realised we weren't the 1st malaysians to stay there!

My drawing (left); Sha's (right)

I hope if I ever do go back there I'll get to see 'em on the wall :D