adios y tal

today was sunshine and chicken sandwiches and last minute postcard souvenirs and passion fruit martinis and sushi and lovely catherine and 3am walk home with albert talking about barcelona and traveling and coming back and staying home. hasta luego, bcn; you've sure been swell.

goodbye daytrip, sand between our toes

kelly and i spent the most lovely lazy sunshine-y day today at a little town an hour out of barcelona called sant pol de mar. the beach was beautiful and isolated and i just read and napped and cooled off in the mediterranean sea (also, got very sunburned). tomorrow is my last day in barcelona and my plans are to relax and meet catherine for margaritas and walk down my favorite streets and get ready to finally fly home. i will enjoy old comforts, i will not indulge in (bad) old habits.

sant jordi i el drac

yesterday was sant jordi's day, a very catalan holiday when all barcelona girls get roses from barcelona boys and boys get books from their girls. the whole city was packed like i've never seen it, and the streets are lined with roses of all kinds and books of all kinds for people to pick up along the way. kelly, tara and i got roses from the boys and found them these vintage catalan cookbooks for housewives. it was all very valentine's 2.0.

also, i know it makes me beyond boring, but i just want to go home. i have appreciated this opportunity so much but i am done.

or, dramatic change of plans:

staying in barcelona hostel for 7 nights until my flight back to the states. biggest bummer.

south of france tomorrow for sure

eyjafjallajokull, hate you.

quejido: i just want to get to french riviera with jenni and then GET HOME. ay que horror. que. hor. or.

as of now my "plan" (hah. hah.) is to avoid london like the plague and be very sad about not being able to meet catherine in paris and figure out some other way to get back to the states. royal navy?

last hurrahs, etc..

(photos from catherine's camera. love these girls!)