Bits of Barcelona...pt. 1

After a looong and labor intensive month and a half in Milano I went to Barcelona for spring break, we spent most of the first day roaming around the city...

We decided that the best way to spend 5 days in Barcelona was by renting a small apartment where we could cook our own meals and fit 4-8 people...these are the stairs up to our apartment...there was no elevator
the address said that it was on the third floor and in European buildings that means the 4th floor but we were actually on the 5th floor...avoiding loose tiles while carrying a full suitcase was definitely a workout

First Starbucks in MONTHS! The Italian coffee culture, although very rich, refuses to incorporate "coffee-to-go" which is one of my favorite parts of the American coffee-culture. As professor Dipak Pant put it: "Americans like BIG soup coffee", so being able to have a 20 oz. latte to last an hour as opposed to a shot-sized macchiato to be finished in 5 minutes was nothing less than nostalgic.


Barcelona had some of the best graffiti i've ever seen this was across the street from a nearby grocery store. This one, in particular, felt very Tim Burton to me and I had to snap a a picture...