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I think we´ve done pretty much everything one can do in this city! Football - Gaudi and Clubbing!

Yesterday, after feeling like idiots by wasting our day and sleeping in until 12, we went straight out to Camp Nou near Les Corts to buy tickets to the FC Barcelona vs Racing game on Sunday. I tried in vein to order the tickets in broken spanish from the guy at the ticket office - who just pointed me to another queue - the queue for the FC Barcelona museum. After we´d realised we hadn´t made any sense to the guy we tried again in English - which of course - like everyone in every shop here - he understood perfectly! So birthday night - we´ll be above the North Goal in Camp Nou. Sweet!

After our slightly traumatic ticket buying experience (we also struggled to buy tickets from the automatic machines which wouldn´t accept our cards) we took a tour around the New Camp which is just the most incredible stadium ever. The tour includes views of the players changing rooms, pitch, coaches dugout, vip area, press office, players lounge (with leather sofas and espresso machines!) plus a tour of the museum with trophy cabinet! Barcelona are an incredible team who have won everything! They have so many trophies its ridiculous. Probably the highlight was the museum of press photos of Football - games, countries, players, funny and serious.

After Camp Nou we headed over to La Sagrada Familia - a Cathedral designed by Gaudi in the late 1800´s - which is still unfinished after 120 years! We went up the lift to the bridge to take in the breathtaking views of Barcelona. On the ground floor theres a museum all bout Gaudi and the reasons why the cathedral looks the way it does. Gaudi was really into nature so the columns are built like trees, the ceiling represents the canopy of leaves, there are little mushroom and fish shapes in the walls and his use of light through stained glass is incredible.

Back at the Hostel, we played cards and had drinks until 11 before heading out with all the other Hostellers - mainly Americans as well as a group of lads from Leicester. We went to a crazy cocktail bar where they burned everything - ther highlights being a Harry Potter with cinnamon which crackled and a Bin Laden which was Whisky, Vodka and Baileys set on Fire - mental! At about 1am we took a drunken anc confusing tube ride over to the Zona Universitat to Pacha where we blagged free entry! We got back at about 8am to a silent hostel where Jon and Dan went to bed - and I - well - I´ll leave what I did to a personal chat - too personal for this Blog

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