Friday morning the entire BCA program had a field trip with my favorite History of Spain professor.
They really could pick a more understandable professor to give a tour of the old part of
Barcelona.
We walked around the old part of the city all morning and he took us to the Cathedral and a few other buildings, pointing out old Roman ruins.
The two most interesting parts of the tour were seeing a few pillars of the old Roman forum and going into the Parliament building.
There were only a few pillars still standing from the forum, but I thought it was interesting because there are buildings all around them.
The Parliament building was beautiful inside.
This was the building where they had the projection show on the building for Dia de la Merce.
Our professor kept getting mad at us for walking too slow, but honestly it is hard to bring thirty kids through narrow streets that are bustling with other people, mopeds and tourists.
I was excited when he let us leave a half hour early.
I went home for lunch and rested for the afternoon.
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| Our professor is so happy with our group... |
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| Inside the Parliament Building |
That night, Pepita was supposed to go her grandkids’ swim lessons, but she still hadn’t recovered from her cold, so she stayed home.
We had tortilla de patatas and some interesting cold pepper dish.
After dinner, I got ready to go out and met Evan, Miriam and Emily on Las Ramblas.
We sat and chatted on a bench for a while, before we went to this forest bar.
The bar had a nice atmosphere with trees and forest things inside.
Like a Rainforest Café for adults.
A few more people met up with us there, and we left before 2 to catch the last metro home.
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| El Bosque |
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| Emily, Evan and Jack waiting for the metro after going out |
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