Anchoring Down in Barcelona

This past weekend, Vanderbilt took over Barcelona. With a few visitors in town, we had an amazing time exploring the city, visiting staple Barcelona tourist spots, and taking them to our favorite night spots. Some of  our main excursions included taking a walk along the port, visiting the El Born area, La Boqueria, and trying amazing food at Bo De B, Milk, Happy Pills, and more. It was crazy to see how all of these famous food locations are literally the size of a shoe box – how did anyone even find them in the first place?!  Happy Pills is the size of a tiny narrow hallway while Bo De B and Milk can probably fit a total of 30 people combined. But hey, I guess good things really do come in small packages. This was also my first time seeing the El Borne area and I can definitely consider it my new favorite spot. The area has so many cute restaurants with cool graffiti lining the walls, and we also just happened to stumble upon a cute Spanish festival. While traveling is always new and exciting, I don’t understand why people are so eager to get out of here every weekend! Barcelona has so much to offer, but I hope we don’t get so caught up in trying to travel all over Europe that we never get to immerse ourselves in all of the Spanish culture we are surrounded by. Hopefully I can get my friends to take a few more weekends off of traveling so that we can visit even more new places around Barcelona 🙂