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Barcelona, our final stop in Europe before heading to America.
In terms of cleanliness and the friendliness of the locals, Barcelona is a major step up. Unlike Paris and Rome and Athens, Barcelona was clean and you could walk the streets at night without wondering whether or not that hooker was following you. The lack of gypsies pestering you every five minutes is a relief too.
Went on another hop-on-hop-off bus tour, cruised around the city the first day, saw all the sites. Stopped off at the harbour where a few mega huge cruise ships were docked.
Checked out the Sagrada Familia, huge ugly church. There was construction all around it that made it even uglier, but even without it, it would have been hideous. A lot of the buildings around Barcelona were quite odd looking.. Many of them looked like beehives or something.
To ease our eyes of the ugliness, we went to the Magic Fountain of Montjuic, which is basically just a huge fountain that puts on a light show at night, pretty cool.
Paid a visit to the casino, where I lost a bit of money.. Then I won it all back and madea little profit. Nothing big, just training for Vegas
Then after a bit of shopping, drinking and a little more shopping, our time in Barcelona, and Europe, came to a close and we endured a flight to Frankfurt, with turbulence. From Frankfurt we spent 8 hours on a plain to New York, with turbulence that made the first flight look like a stroll in the park. At one point we dropped so suddenly that our butts actually left our seats.
Moral of the story : Don't fly Lufthansa.
Every flight we've had with them has been turbulent.
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