This is a sort of pre-trip trip to find out what I actually need and whether I can cope spending a month or so wandering around places I don't know on my own. I woke up late for this one, which wasn't the greatest of starts, and made it to the airport about 40 minutes or so before the flight. Luckily security at Gatwick wasn't as bad as I'd been told so I managed to get to the gate well before they started boarding albeit realising I'd forgotten to bring a toothbrush, a camera and not recharged my phone. Getting there didn't feel too strange except realising that I was the only person on the flight who wasn't with someone else but I was only going to be in Barcelona for 17 hours and I thought
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