Night Trains...

Amanda and I left last night from San Sebastian to Barcelona on our second night train. Even though we didn´t have beds, we were hopeful since our seats were said to be ´first class.´Great, right? Absolutely wrong! We shared a small room with 3 other people (an older couple and younger guy.) Our seats layed down and touched so that we had a tiny twin bed between the two of us. We tried to get settled so that we could sleep through the ten hour ride, but knew it would be impossible... Amanda and I have shared MANY beds in our lifetime, this was definitely the smallest. Amanda, dipping into her pharmacy, decided to resort to her drugs... We both took dramamine that thankfully knocked us out for most of the night. Thank the lord for dramamine! Amanda and I still have one more night train ahead of us, but hopefully we´ll be able to reserve tickets (we finally figured out how to do that. You have to make the reservation 76 hours in advance and claim the tickets 24 hours before you need them... what?)

We arrived this morning in Barcelona and I called my former teacher Pep to see if he wanted to meet up and/or house us for the night. His friend met us at a café and let us in his apt. We dropped off our bags, I looked around, and then we both decided to go down the street to a hostal. Our hostal is huge and ok, but there seems to be people still occupying our room... we´ll see I guess. For now, I get to enjoy my Barcelona and do everything I missed (like eating ice cream at Dino´s) and see things I didn´t see before (one of Guadi´s apt. buildings.) Right now, we´re at my former school using the internet for free. It´s funny to be in such a familiar place and feel so touristy at the same time. Even if it´s just for the day, I´m so glad to be back in Barcelona!!! Hopefully, we´ll go out tonight and since we´ve mastered the art of sleeping in chairs, sleep on our day train we have booked for tomorrow morning... France, here we come!