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Things Left to do in Barcelona:
-Ice Bar
-La Fira
-Montserrat day trip
-Beach 3 days a week
-Sitges day trip
-Hike Tibidabo
-Drink out of the Barca fountain
-Font Magica
-Picture w/ Doner Sants

Better late than never right?

Cannon to the right of therm!

Just when you thought there couldn't be any more castles... I went to Castle/coastal fortress Montjuic today for blue skies and well... cannons



To explain the title of the entry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1s7o3oATA

Tomorrow I'm going to see Girltalk...then off to Paris on thursday. Nice

Prague: Bells and Castles

Food

Number of ham and cheese sandwiches I've had: 48

Most deceptive sandwich that ended up being a ham and cheese: Chicken Cordon Blue

Best mistranslated menu item: Tie between "Intense Chocolate" and "Frying Pain Fish"

Living

Charlatan of the week: Davis' blog

I traveled to Prague for a weekend and was greeted by gray skies and sweet castles. Czech Republic is pretty wacky. My first meal there was ostrich which tasted more like steak than chicken and I passed about 10 marionette and glassware stores. Even the tourist-y glass shops had a wide selection of chandeliers to buy, which is the single most impractical thing someone who is traveling could get. In case puppets or crystal bells aren't your thing, you could always take home an ornate decorative egg or a large wooden Santa. Oddities aside, the large portions of meats were a relief from the tyranny of ham and olive oil in Spain.


I felt that a vampire movie could have started at any time. The nightlife was a bit quieter, but we were offered "sexy girls and sexy prices" by one guy. Probably the most interesting event was getting baked and going to this.

Fun Fact: In Prague, there are signs for how far away the nearest McDonalds is

Mega Update

Chances are if you're reading this I want to have a pool party with you when everyone gets back.

Food

Number of ham and cheese sandwiches I've had: 37

Most deceptive sandwich that ended up being a ham and cheese: "Pizza" with slices of ham under the cheese instead of tomato sauce.

Best Thing Ever: Nutella Gelato in Rome.

Living

Today is my first day without the brace. I even worked out in a ridiculous Spanish gym. All the TVs show obscure Olympic sports and they only play old school Gangsta' rap. So while I'm watching cross country skiing, Scarface is blasting in the background. I'm glad I'm doing my rehabilitation here. Even though I'm using ridiculously light weights so are all the other Spanish men...well after their pilates class.

I've obviously broken more rules but they're more or less the same or combinations of the ones I've previously posted. She keeps telling the cleaning lady not to clean my room because its too dirty...then yells at me for my room not being tidy. Anyway...

Rome

I went to Rome last weekend and stayed for free at my friend's apartment. I felt pretty dumb not having a camera at Vatican City...since every square inch is priceless art in some form or another.


Outside of tourist-y stuff we also went to a local Italian comic book shop where I picked up the most ridiculous Dylan Dogs I could find. There were a few professional superhero artists when we went and asked them to draw us as superheroes. I guess they thought we meant Spiderman...

Fun Fact Rome Edition: The toilets at The Vatican are literally holes in the ground.

Carnival

Since I wasn't tired from traveling to Rome or anything, I went to the small town of Sitges on Fat Tuesday for the last day Carnival. I'm not sure if I can ever really go to another party again. The TOWN was closed off because of the massive parade and the fact that 10000+ people were celebrating in costumes ranging to toilets to a group of 6 moose. I bought an entire rotiseree chicken and bottle of Sangria for under 10 Euro and ran around town in my star hoodie (pictures of that coming soon). Since I had 2 midterms and a Spanish presentation the next morning we called it quits early and I got back at 4 A.M.

Bonus Fun Fact: I know someone named Sarah Hamburger.

Week 3

Food

Number of ham and cheese sandwiches I've had: 25

Most deceptive sandwich that ended up being a ham and cheese: None. I'm starting to figure them out.

Best thing ever: 1 Euro fresh fruit smoothies from strawberry banana to mango pineapple. Odwalla has been de-throned.

Living

I've almost recovered my full range of motion with my arm. In another week or two I shouldn't need the brace.

Also I'm pretty close to declaring war on my Senora. Her rules seem only to apply to me and are becoming increasingly unreasonable. I've been lectured/yelled at for:

1. Having a glass of water in my room.
2. Not making my bed (while I was in it for 2 days and had food poisoning).
3. Not telling her I was in the house despite arriving before her.
4. Buying food.
5. Having ONE kleenex on the floor which clearly fell out of my trash can by accident. I know kleenex and papers go in the trash.

On a much more fun note I traveled around the city and finally got to see Gaudi park, which is magically 12 degrees warmer than the city and has full foliage in February. I guess Gaudi figured out how to get around winter as well as straight lines.



Nightlife

I took a week off from clubs (I know I'll party harder next time) for some bars and high end dessert shops.

Fun Fact: Pig legs are readily available to buy for all your ham needs.

Food Poisoning

Never eat the anchovy pizza...no matter how convenient it may be.

Week 2

Food

Number of ham and cheese sandwiches I've had: 18

Most deceptive sandwich that ended up being a ham and cheese: The Bikini

Best mistranslated menu item: Donut Cuttle Fihs

Living

More rules that I've broken...

1. Trying to wash food off my plate in the sink
2. Having food in my room
3. Not putting my pants on hangers
4. Putting food in the "wrong" shelf of the fridge
5. My room being so messy that the cleaning lady couldn't clean it?

Nightlife

I may or may not have been out until 5 AM at an electro rager with Steve Aoki.

Fun Fact: It's almost impossible to play ping pong outside on a windy day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4

Trippin'

You can't get into the clubs with Nike's, no matter how fly they are.

Yes...Clubbing with a broken arm.

Hiss

I step into a shallow puddle and hear a hiss near the streetlight. I turn to see what it is.

It is not a snake, but a prostitute.

She is quite aggressive. I respectfully decline her offer.

My Bar Can Beat Up Your Bar Vol. 1

Bar: Bosc de Les Fades

Theme: Enchanted Forest

I went here over the weekend for a whimsical and relaxing time. There's even a hidden Groto and a stream that runs through the bar.

Week 1 Re-cap

Food

Number of ham and cheese sandwiches I've had: 11

Most deceptive sandwich that ended up being a ham and cheese: "Ham"burger with cheese

Best mistranslated menu item: Grilled Pork the Steak

Living

"You put your pants in the wrong drawer."
"Uh.."

I'm living in an apartment with a room-mate and a host Senora. She's very nice and the apartment is very spacious, but she has a nearly ending supply of arbitrary rules that I keep breaking. So far I've been lectured after:

1. Not closing the bathroom door completely
2. Not putting the toilet seat down at all times (she has her own bathroom)
3. Putting my shoes near my clothes?
4. Buying more food when I still had two muffins left
5. Saying I like apple juice but not drinking it with a meal of yogurt and a ham and cheese.

El Education

"Who are you?"
"I'm in the class."
"No you're not"
"Yeah I am. I just got in two days ago because of the arm"
"You're in bilingual entrepreneurship?"
"No, you're right. I'm not."

Walked into three wrong classes from jet-lag and general disorientation.

Nightlife

Incredible.



Fun Fact: Drunk girls who come up and yell "I KNOW YOU" are not limited to just the U.S.

Jamon y Queso Part 1

9:17 A.M.

I ordered an orange juice.

The waiter asked if I also wanted a Ham and Cheese.

Yes, yes I would.