Day 2: Beach day!

Today we spent the day at the beach!!!! What a perfect day we had. Honestly there’s not much to write about with regards to today and only one pictures of us ready to go to the beach but nothing else; however, this was one of the best days of vacation!

Today’s the day I realized how much I love Barcelona and Spain! The day started with us finding a place for breakfast. We found a little cafe called Dino Pan just down the street from our house and decided to check it out. We had this ham and cheese croissants which were delicious with the ham and cheese baked in, Joe got some coffee and I got some fresh squeezed orange juice. They had this cool juicer machine that made the best orange juice ever! YUMMY! And the best part the whole breakfast only cost 5 euros. (Compared to the 12 euros PER PERSON the hotel wanted to charge us for breakfast if we wanted it.) So with food in our stomachs we set out for the mall in search of flip flops for Joe and a hat for me. (Side note: Joe has flip flops but they’re back in Baltimore, I forgot to bring them for him when I came in May!) We found a huge grocery store, got some cheap flip flops, some more sunscreen and headed back to the hotel to get ready for the beach. No go on the hat though so I went without another day! On the way back to the hotel we stopped at our friends at Dino Pan for some sandwiches for lunch! (again delicious!) We ended up eating breakfast here every day and lunch (7 euros for 2 huge chicken finger sandwiches) several times as well! You can’t beat cheap, good food!)

So we got ready, headed to the beach and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon basking in the sun. Oh, the sand and sun felt so good! It was just perfect at the beach!!!! I loved thinking about how we were swimming in the Mediterranean! How many people can say they’ve done that?! I guess we can check that off any kind of bucket list we might have! We went in the water several times and enjoyed the sun for the rest of the time. To make things easy we just had some Burger King for dinner (oh thank you fast food restaurants for making life easy when traveling in a different country and providing consistent inexpensive options for meals!) Then we walked back along the boardwalk, got some delicious ice cream (which again, I swear is on every corner in Europe!) and headed back to the hotel.


We still haven’t done much sight seeing at this point but that’s fine with us. We still have 3 more days to enjoy Barcelona and decided to sight see in the morning and beach it up in the afternoon. What a perfect way to spend a vacation!