Barcelona - Parc de la Ciutadella and many more

First impression of Barcelona was pretty bad, the lesson learned was take care of your things or they will be stolen. On the way to the city from the airport a girl gets her phone stolen, it happened really quickly. There were many weird looking people on the metro and at a stop one older guy leaves the metro and then another guy who was standing next to a girl tells her that she just had her phone stolen. Her expression went from desperation to total sadness, it was kind of sad to see that. To be honest, after this event we didn’t carry anything else with us except the phone and some money in the phone case. You never know when you get your things stolen especially in a city like Barcelona, where things like this happen all the time according to people living there.

After a long trip to get to Barcelona, we spent the first evening with my cousin and her friends, so we didn’t do much.

The second day, we explored a bit the area next to the Arc de Triomph and the park nearby before our meeting with some of D’s family. 

This house looked like a big insect with antennas.

We enjoyed seeing the geese with they small goslings, one turned his head in a weird way and D. managed to capture the exact moment.

After our meeting and lunch, we explored the Gothic part of Barcelona a bit...

and visited the Mercat del Born…

… train station

…some other parts of the city

…plus some Roman columns.

And we saw a cute dog waiting for his owner.

Afterwards, we decided it would be great to see Tibidabo, of course on the way there we stopped at the CosmoCaixa – Science Museum where we saw many fossils, an exposition about the moon mission, different layers of soils and a lot of fish and some birds. It was quite an interesting museum.

 take me to the moon 

On the way to Tibidabo we discovered that the cable car was under maintenance and by foot it would have taken at least 1 h and 30 min to get there. Unfortunately, we did not make it but we had a nice view of the city.