Le Rambla and The Castillo

    Alright so I realize its been awhile since I have written about much and updated. So here goes. Spain is amazing. It is a freakin awesome place that has a great feel to it. Besides the fact that I can't speak spanish, which hasn't been horrible since I have had a lot of translators around me, it has been a very relaxing feel to it. I am right on the beach and theres pretty much a long board walk called le rambla with a ton of places and everything on it. Here is pretty much the opposite to England. Whereas England had days where you rise early, and everything closes at 4, so its hard to find any place to really go between 17 and the bars opening. Here everything is in my kind of time. Places open at about 11, then they take a siesta around 15 or 18 so places are just closed for people to go home and sleep, late dinners, and then most bars start at 24 and close just in time for the clubs to open at 3.
    My first day here I was so dead from the whole getting here thing I ended up just crashing and sleeping most of the day away. It was pretty amazing I found the place even since upon arriving at the airport after a horribly antsy feeling plane ride (it turns out I really don't like flying much) I arrived at the point where nobody spoke my language. I found a bus and tried to ask the guy if he was going to where the hostel was. All he kept saying over and over was the citys name so I figured why the heck not and jumped on. Turns out there were several different stops to get off of and I took a gamble and jumped off on the 4th one when I figured the castle seemed to look at the right place it did in the pictures of the hostel. From there I wandered around until I somehow managed to run into the hostel after 30 minutes. You can not have a clue how much of an amazing thing that was. There are so many back alley twisty turny random ways here. Everything is crammed in and there is something around every corner. I absolutely love it.
    So I wandered around the city that night trying to find something to eat. I ended up with I think it was a kebab, though I kept calling it a felafel and the guy kept saying no, he did speak english but still didn't understand my references to explaining the food. In the end I got some good cheap kebab food and a coke from the machine outside and sat on la ramble watching the people go by. Every store here has a set up outside their place of a ton of chairs and tables, since as opposed to the magical stores in london that look tiny but are huge inside, here they almost look bigger from the outside then the are inside. The only places that have been bigger are the apartments of people and the clubs. Anyhow I ended up sitting on the far end of a area for some ice cream place so the whole time the owner was glaring at me for not having bought anything from him, though I feel like he was just bored and I think I was doing him a favor by showing people to sit down there or tricking them to check out the place. I still couldn't hear by this point from the plane and I had met a guy from the hostel who had mentioned doing the holding your nose and blowing type a thing. So I tried it while on la rambla. Of course this is the one time anybody managed to walk pretty close to me and look at me so this dude in a suit is just straight on staring at me with a weird look saying what the heck do you think your doing. I just busted out laughing causing him of course to look at me weirder. Another was before I finally settled on going into a place I wandered around the pier checking out all the places. Off the pier past the giant casino every place is kind of on stilts and whatnot so stairs go up to it. While I was walking past a set of stairs this giant black cat hopped out from beneath the stairs and then two little kittens followed close behind. It was the most adorable thing but for the life of me I could not figure out where they had come from and then after they turned around and went right back in I pretty much got on my knees to see if I could see where they went. I gave up after I got weird glaring looks from people passing by.
    The next day we went exploring the castle. I will definitely be posting the pictures up later but for now going through all 200 of them and stuff would be not very fun. The funny thing was we got directions from the lady at the hostel and she said there was 2 ways, one to walk and take an elevator up to the castle and two to walk all the way around and then basically cross back on a different road the same length as the first up to it. She seemed very intent not to do that one but of course we figured we had all day and why not have a adventure. Turns out there was a much better way though at the time of course we had no idea if we would actually make it to the castle, it just seemed like a good idea to keep walking which ever way the hill went up. And dang does this place slope. The entire place seems like they took a hill and at a different place built buildings, picked em up and deposited them wherever there was room, not bothering to match anything to each other of course. It turns out to give quite a cool feeling and place but its just nutty. There was some crazy cool buildings that reignited my architecture spirit within. It seemed to be exactly the type of building that is like what I want to do. The funniest part about walking up the castle is that every time we got to a place to look out at the view we just kept repeating oh look its the same view as before but at a different height. Despite the feeling of stupidity from it, it did just keep looking more and more beautiful as time and height gathered. We ended up arriving at the top when the sun was about to set but it was still a half hour from actually watching the sunset from there, it was also very cloudy and raining pretty decently. The funniest thing was that it is definitely the ruins of a castle cause there was no where to actually get into the castle. All in all a very beautiful castle and city. From the top we took the elevator back down. It was crazy though, the elevator looked like such a futuristic crazy thing. If you have seen Dr.Who it kind of looked like the inside of the Tardis. When you walk into the room for the elevator there is an old man to escort you into the elevator and then inside the elevator there is another old man to push the button for you. Its hilarious because to get out at the bottom theres a long as heck futuristic tunnel with changing lights on the side. And when we walked down and kept turning back the old man from inside the elevator had moved to sit on a chair directly at the end of the tunnel. So that it looked so creepy with the man at the end of the tunnel. Alright I think thats the end of my first update from Spain. Feast your eyes theres more to come ;)