Day 6 - Travel day between Madrid and Barcelona

On Tuesday, May 25th, was spent mostly traveling between Madrid and Barcelona.  Our train out of Madrid left at 12:30pm and we had to be at the train station by 11:45am.  We got up early that morning to make sure we were able to shower, finish packing, and be out of the room by 11:30am.  We weren't sure how we were going to get to the train station with all of our stuff but eventually we decided to take a taxi instead of trying to brave the subway in the middle of the afternoon.

We made it to Barcelona at around 3pm.  The train station connected directly to the subway station (the train in Madrid was this way too) and we decided to try to navigate our way via subway to our hotel.  I knew which subway stop to get off on but I was unsure of exactly how to get to our hotel from there.  I checked the hotel website before we came to Spain and found out that the hotel was tucked back away from the street and kind of hard to find.  We ended up walking for a while and were unable to find it.  I eventually stopped in to another hotel and asked for directions.  We really weren't far away and we found it pretty quickly.  We get to the hotel and check in and take our bags up to our room.  The room is small but bigger than the first room.  I did not take any photos of this room unfortunately. 

After we put down our bags we decided to go check out the Barcelona Cathedral that just happens to be right around the corner from our hotel.  The cathedral was really nice and had all the old charm that most of the churches in Spain did.  We took lots of pictures to prove it.

The front of the Cathedral of Barcelona

The enterance of the Cathedral

Some of the inside beauty

We were able to go up to the top of the church to see the construction in progress and the beautiful views of Barcelona below.  This cross is on the top of the church.

The Crypt of Saint Eulalia

We left the church around 5:30pm and headed out to look for dinner.  We ended up eating at a touristy place that had more American style food in it.  We ended up sitting next to a couple from the States and we talked before our dinner cames.  After that we just walked around the main street and found out where stuff was.  We went to the hotel room early to relax and unpack and called it an early night.