Jill & Caroline in Barcelona

From: Jill Yosar
To: Emily
Subject: Hello from Barcelona

Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:54:52 +1100

Hi Hi everyone, how’s it going???
 
We’re sitting at a huge internet cafe in Barcelona right now. We got here on Monday and are staying on a street called La Ramblas which I think is the busiest street in Barcelona. It’s heaps long and goes down to the beach, there heaps of hostels and hotels, restaurants and places that sell tacky and cheap souvenirs but the atmosphere is really good cos there’s heaps of people there all day and night.

The only downside is that there are so many tourists here and lots of dodgy people that look like they want to steal your bags. But we're having fun anyway. We stayed at this dodgo hostel last night, it was gross, we had shared bathrooms and there was no hot water ahhhhh. So we moved across the street to a hotel which is so much better and only 2 euro more than the crappy hostel. Everything is pretty expensive here cos the Aussie dollar is crap, so everything here is double the price for us.

Today we didn’t do a whole lot, we moved hotels and then walked around the city shopping cos it’s been pouring and it’s too hard to sightsee in the rain. We've had really good weather for the trip so far, its been sunny everywhere we’ve been and its been so good to go skiing and up into the alps when its sunny cos you see so much more and its a lot warmer.

 

Thanks everyone for replying to my emails and sorry for not writing personal emails but its quite expensive and we never have enough time to write them. Everyone in Zurich was dressed heaps grungy/boho/stylish 2nd hand clothes etc etc.  

 

I've never seen so many facial piercing and people with dreads in my whole life and its weird cos Switzerland is such a conservative country. There a real mix of people in Spain, everyone has cool shoes :D:D and I'm so hanging to buy new shoes but I cant find any cool shoe shops. I really need new shoes cos my sneakers got soaked in the rain today. Anyway hope everyone is well, talk to u all soon :) 
 

Love Jilly xoxo