Our hostel in Barcelona left something to be desired. The girl at the front desk told us there was absolutely NO alcohol allowed and later we saw her drinking wine out of the bottle on the job. We ended up in a room with four boys who, from what we could tell, slept 24 hours a day so our windowless room smelled like dirty boys feet. Also the hostel advertised that it was located 100 meters from the beach, we walked for an hour before we found it. But eventually we did find it and thats when Barcelona started to get better for us. Our roommate from London, Ksenya (the K is silent) met us and will be traveling with us for the next week. On Thursday we walked along the main pedestrian mall La Rambla,
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