Hi from Toulouse
Well I feels like i have packed in sooo much in the last 2 weeks. Tarifa, Barcelona and just arrived in Toulouse yesterday.
The rest of my stay in Tarifa was very chilled out, mostly spent my time at the beach and then going to Chilli Mosa for dinner. Graeme also took me to the place where he worked and stayed when he first came too Tarifa about 6 months ago, its morrocon style accomidation but free to stay if you do work on the property, run by English hippy characters .
My mishen to Barcelona was a long one , bus at 8.30 to Malaga for 2hrs then waited at the airport a few hrs for my flight to Barcelona. I got the train into Barcelona and then a metro to my hostel but got absoloutely soaked trying to find the hostel in absolute pouring rain, eventualy found it with the help of friendly locals .
I met a Hungarian girl at the Hostel, which was very nice, pretty much straight away and went out to dinner with her and some freinds right in central Barcelona the night I arrived so when we finnaly got back to the hostel after travelling all day sleep was very good. I’l post more about Barcelona in a day or so.
Au revoir for now
Barcelona part two – I basically had 2 . 5 days to check out barcelona but I mananged to pack in quite a bit , would like to go back there some day for sure. My first day i just check out La Rumbla the main st in the city centre which is where I found the food market . Day 2 was the Gaudi stuff, the gaudi park and sagrada famillia also a few other buildings.
Day 3 was a quite a bit of walking , very hot too. I check out some gardens , the olypic stadium and the beach with far too many packed onto it so i didnt stay there for long. The Hostel experience was heaps of fun, I met a couple of girls from Wellington and some Australians. I also left the reception staff ,who play music in the comuninal areas, a few albums of NZ music which they were stoked about. On Monday morning I got the bus to Toulouse, about 6-7 hrs but very nice country side, vinyards in all directions.