Thursday, October 29, 2009

Maybe I Will Tell You All About It When I'm in the Mood to Lose My Way With Words...

So for my fall break, I went to Barcelona, Athens, Paros, and the Sofitel Hotel because my flight home got cancelled and easyjet.com comped my 5 star room for 2 nights, including all meals. I've decided to just show pictures of the epic adventure with captions to save everyone the trouble of having to read what would be a post to rival the Iliad. Enjoy as I did...



Goofing off at the airport in Barcelona


Our Room at our hostel: BarcelonaUrbany



Our Room: those lockers are RFID



Our Bathroom



View outside our room



View of the building from the outside



3rd Floor lounge with €1 beers



View from outside lounge



Dinner: Seafood Paella



Headed to Camp Nou



Original travel Bus for Barcelona



Goofing off in the official team store



Camp Nou: "More than a team"



Trophies



English Court: A 13 story mall



Tapas: Calimari



Tapas: Tomato, Basil, Mozarella



Tapas: Feta Cheese infused Veal Burger



Walking down Avinguda Diagonal and trying to kick pigeons



Wide Roads and great architecture


FIFA 10 cover for Spain...had to





Gaudi House



Gaudi House



Gaudi House



Flagship store for Zara



Catalunya



Catalunya



La Rambla








Crazy side shows on La Rambla





Famous market open all hours of the day



Expensive jambon



Chocolate covered orange



A dozen chocolate roses?



Dow Jones Bar, where the more you buy a drink, the more expensive it gets



Every few minutes, prices on drinks crash and are cheap again



RazzMaTazz - 5 story club



Dancing on subwoofers



Main floor in RazzMaTazz



Doner Kebab: So much lamb i didn't know what to do with myself



Bull Fighting Arena



Sagrada Famiglia



Boss matching



Crazy details



Love how Barcelona has roads and middle walkways...Florence should take note




Wall outside to Parc Guell


Entrance to Parc Guell



Famous Gaudi Lizard



Main congregation area in park



First scenic overlook in park over Barcelona





Famous slanted walkway



Major scenic overlook of Barcelona



See above



Half a chicken for €9



Port of Barcelona



Free Biodiveristy Bubble with Free Show



Getting ready for the show



Show on the dome



Funny sign on the beach



Climbing a rope jungle gym with the 5 star W Hotel in distance



Olympic Village



Casino



Started with €5, 30 sec later up €17, left with €0



Bentley and F430 outside casino



Church in the Gothic Quarter



Arc de Triomf



Chupitos Bar



100 shots, 95 shots €2/each, 5 shots €5/each



Harry Potter Shot



Me!



Opium Mar



Dance floor at Opium Mar playing legit hip hop



Crazy sick club, one of the best in Barcelona and its right on the beach



On a Monday, 6 hours before we fly out to Athens



First meal in Athens: Feta cheese covered fries



First meal in Athens: Burger and Chicken gyros, €1.80 each




Ampitheater



Scenic overlook of Athens



From here I can almost see the sea



Parthenon



Say Word



Parthenon side shot



Stray dogs everywhere!



Yes, its bigger than Vidisha



Booking trip to Paros!



Night Shot of the Acropolis



Brettos - serves Ouza, greek version of jaegar


On the ferry to Paros at 6:45 am



Ferry looked like a cruise ship



Sunrise sunrise, looks like morning in your eyes



Baxter Papadopoulos!



Arriving in Paros!



Classic Cyclades Island



Church is famous for 100 windows...only 99 discovered so far



Macro!




Each private beach known as a bathtub


Clear greek island water



Beautiful beach all to ourselves



Batter batter batter swing!



We came, we saw, we conquered





No one was on the island



Naousa - empty capital













Sunset in Paros



Arriving back in Athens at midnight



Ranked 3rd best gyros place in all of athens



€2



Easyjet flight home cancelled, of course it would happen



So they put us up in this 5 star hotel





Entry into my single, yeah that's a king size bed



Throne



Amazing bathroom





Bowl style sink - my favorite



L'Occitane - yeah I raided the maid cart before I left for home...i have 15 bottles



Sick



Pool I went to 3 times a day



View of Runway




Bubblebath with Hermes Products



Did I mention all meals were comped?



Phenomenal Flan



The Sofital -an Accor hotel



Bumming on the train ride home



Bumped into Taylor Viens, fellow Unionviller studying at NYU



FIFA 10 for Greece...had to



The wife at work




Hopefully you enjoyed the pictures as much as I did taking them. Paris in 16 hours...gotta start packing

1 comment:

  1. oh hay wanna stop making me jealous of the amazing food?!?! =]

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