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arrived in barcelona yesterday, on the late afternoon train from valencia, which was a very hip and punky place with many stylin cafes and bars, no more early moring travel, i will not do it here, its simply not natural and against spainish party ethic to wake up so early. we didn´t figure there would be a problem since in most cities we have visited we´ve basically had our choice rooms and pensions. barcelona was another story though. right off we found a tiny room with a small bed and cot and perhaps should have taken it, for the next 4hrs of alley scouring and attempts at being that 1 in a million that can get a call through the saturated phone lines (serious problem) left us with absolutely nothing. apparently there is some dell-microsoft thing here, and indeed the streets are packed with not only the usual freaks but geek-freaks in dell complementary yellow backpacks, so the usual hotel population is doubled or thereabouts. so we had given up, tried to go back to the train station and go to tarragona or anywhere else, but we missed the last train. dejected and not being able to sleep in the train station we checked the bags and took a cab back to la rambla where we were to dispirited and dog tired to even drink beer. sitting in plaza reial i decided to check the remaining few hostels we hadn´t checked in the square and found something at the last minute, actually the place i stayed in 6yrs ago. que buena suerte!! so today was much better and we got a new place and went out in search of Gaudi stuff down the main drag and visited his hallmark modernista piece that is like a disneyland for adults.

out of internet time, more tomorrow perhaps…