I lef Prague at 11pm on Thursday night and got into Bratislava at 4:30am, then caught a train to Vienna at 5am. I got into Vienna where I proceeded to grab my bag, had a shower and did some last minute emails at the hostel before catching the 9:30am train to Zurich where my plan was to buy a ticket to Barcelona on the overnight train and get there at 9:30am. Good plan…except that I didn’t know that summer holidays started on that very day so when I got to Zurich at 6:30pm, I found out that the overnight train to Barcelona is completely sold out!!! Well, I ended up catching a train with 2 changes to PortBou and then catching a train from there to Barcelona with an arrival time of 12:46pm, over 3 hours later than planned.
Well, let me tell you, I sure made great use of the last 17hrs! My goal was Barcelona was to play some beach volleyball, eat some tapas and seafood and palella, and go out and see the night life.
I know I’m crazy and it’s times like this that prove it and also make me glad that I am cause I had such a fantastic time. I did everything I wanted to do, and felt totally like a local than a tourist. I even made two new friends, (besides the CS host) and now I’m making plans to come back in September.