Cameron and I got into Barcelona Thursday around noon. We used RyanAir, so unfortunately we had to fly into some secondary airport called Girona and then take a bus an hour and a half into the city. We hadn't exactly come prepared with a hostel or anything, so we basically got off the bus and set out trying to find the hostel our friend had booked for Friday and Saturday nights. I had a rough idea of where it was, so we took the metro to Las Ramblas (the main street in the southern area) and just started looking for HelloBCN Hostel.
We finally got some directions and made our way to the hostel, which was off of another big artery of the city called Parallel Street. Luckily they weren't full for the evening and we were able to get two beds in the same room that our friend Lauren Bonds had booked for the five of us the following two nights. We took a nap and then asked the hostel bartender for some dinner recommendations and an English-language movie theatre. We went up to the movie theatre and looked at times, then headed back to Las Ramblas to find a restaurant based on the bartender's suggestions. We settled on a place called Las Fondas, which turned out to be amazing and surprisingly inexpensive. We got a pitcher of sangria (the best sangria of the whole weekend, it turns out), two starter salads, and then I got potted duck and Cameron got a salmon plank. After that, we headed back to the movie theatre and saw Shutter Island with Leonardo DaCaprio. That movie was super freaky, so we just went home and went to bed. But otherwise, a good bro-date for our first night in Barcelona.
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