I went to Barcelona for 3 days, with my friend. This trip is so last minutely so the plane ticket is kinda expensive around 200 euro round trip. But the rest of the trip were cheap, I think I spent around 300 euro for this trip. Here's the details.
Day 0 - Sleeping in Airport
We took an extra early Transavia flight from Amsterdam Airport 06.05 in the morning. Since we don't have car and count on public transportation, we decided to sleep in Airport, it's my very first time experience sleeping in Airport. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is quite comfortable to sleep in, in boarding area (it's advisable to check in online so you can enter the boarding area) you can see some recliner near the restaurant area, and also sofa which you can lay down. It was quite quiet in the midnight but after 3ish people start to come and it's getting noisy. But if you're not checked in yet, you can find some quiet place on 2nd floor to sleep, but no recliner whatsoever so you have to sleep on the floor
Day 1 - Finally Barcelona
It's been a dream for me to go to Barcelona capital city of Catalonia, second largest city in Spain, and house of one of the famous football club FC Barcelona. Land of the handsome latinos guy (which is a lie, because I didn't find any cute guy in Barcelona). We arrived at 08.15 after 2 hours long flight, which I slept through. After we arrived in the airport we took an AeroBus cost 5.3 euro to Plaça de Catalunya, and walk to the Hostel. We can't check in yet, so we went there to drop our bags and continue our journey. We stayed at Hostal Fernando and paid 23 euro a night including breakfast. Hostal Fernando located near La Ramblas, one of the most famous "Shopping Area" in Barcelona. After we dropped our bag we continue our Journey to explore Barcelona and see the old gothic building and some of the gaudi's buildings. Our first destination is La Sagrada Familia, a large Roman Catholic church designed by Gaudi. Although incomplete, the church is one of the UNESCO world heritage site. We walked to the Sagrada, sounds crazy I know, but it's not that far, and as you walk, you can see some of the famous building, like Barcelona Cathedral, Arc de Triomf, and some of random beautiful old buildings that I don't know what the name is :p
After we visited Sagrada, we found a supermarket and bought some sandwich for our lunch, well that's a backpacker life, we bought 2 euro sandwich and some water to drink, and after that we found an asian store, so we bought some noodles for dinner. After we had our lunch we continue walking to enjoy beautiful buildings in Barcelona, like casa batllo and la padrera. One thing I don't like about Barcelona is the buildings are quite messy, it's like there's a modern building next to beautiful Gaudi-Designed building, so you have to walk quite far just to see a building.. oh well it's a great workout I guess :p
Day 0 - Sleeping in Airport
We took an extra early Transavia flight from Amsterdam Airport 06.05 in the morning. Since we don't have car and count on public transportation, we decided to sleep in Airport, it's my very first time experience sleeping in Airport. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is quite comfortable to sleep in, in boarding area (it's advisable to check in online so you can enter the boarding area) you can see some recliner near the restaurant area, and also sofa which you can lay down. It was quite quiet in the midnight but after 3ish people start to come and it's getting noisy. But if you're not checked in yet, you can find some quiet place on 2nd floor to sleep, but no recliner whatsoever so you have to sleep on the floorDay 1 - Finally Barcelona
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| La Ramblas |
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| Sagrada Familia |
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| Inside Sagrada Familia |
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| Arc de Triomf |
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| Gothic Area |
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| Barcelona Cathedral |
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| Random Building |
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| La Padrera |
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| Casa Batllo |
After seeing all those beautiful buildings my feet got sore and we got tired, so we decided to go back to the hostel first to check in and get a little bit rest before we continue our journey to Plaça Espanya to see the famous magic fountain show in Montjuic. It's possible to walk from La Ramblas to Plaça Espanya but we're just too tired. So we decided to take a Metro to go there. We bought the T-10 ticket from the machine (9.80euro). T-10 is multi-person ticket valid for 10 journeys, valid for 75 minutes after first validation. So if you travel with 2 person, each person can use 5 of it, which is quite cheap compared to transportation fare in Netherlands. When we got there, the place is quite full with people and the fountain show was about to started. The fountain show usually start when the sun sets, so you can see the beautiful light, etc. But don't worry if you arrive early you can visit the other part of Montjuic like the MNAC or other museum located around there. Or just do what I did, went to a building in front of it and went to the top with elevator (pay 1euro) where you can see Barcelona from top
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| Placa Espanya |
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| Sunset in Barcelona |
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| People waiting for the fountain show |
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| Placa Espanya at Night |
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| Placa Espanya |
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| Fountain Show |