Hi everyone! Melanie here. We arrived in Barcelona around 9:30PM on the 9th. We took a taxi straight to our hotel, but our taxi driver got a little lost (supposedly) and it took us a a bit longer to get to our hotel. It's all good because we ended up paying exactly what trusty ol' Rick Steves said we'd have to pay anyways. We are staying at Hotel California, which is on a little street right off Las Ramblas. It is a great location and decent hotel, if I do say so myself. The floor in our room is all tile, which I'm sure is great during the summer, but not so great in the winter. It is freezing here! While I was huddled up in the bed trying not to freeze to death (my Filipino
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