Last weekend we traveled to Barcelona. On our way we stopped at the Codorníu Bodega where we received a tour of the cava’s and were able to try two different types of Cava.

Codorníu Bodega

I enjoyed taking a vacation from my vacation, but I wasn’t really impressed with it. It was really nice but very crowded and full of rude, angry people. The Gaudi architecture was the only thing I really enjoyed about it. I prefer a smaller city like the one I live in. We saw La Sagrada Familia, Parque Güell, and the Batlló House.

La Sagrada Familia

Parque Güell

Batlló House

Other than these few places, and this type of architecture, I found Barcelona to be highly overrated. We went out to a giant bar where we got some free sangria and this other bar that was called Chupitos (shots). They had like 400 different types of shots. It was somewhat incredible.

The next weekend we went to the zoo. It was an hour train ride and a four mile walk but it was totally worth it. The zoo was separated into continents, which was cool, along with a special exhibit for venomous creatures. The venomous area had spiders, snakes, frogs, bugs and stuff like that.

Poison Dart Frogs

America was pretty cool filled with all sorts of exotic animals like monkeys and mammals from the rain forest. There was also a bird sanctuary that you could just walk into and you were surrounded by exotic birds. You could buy seed and feed them and it was so amazing. Not to mention there was no security or supervision in this place so you were free to do as you pleased.

My hand feeding this bird thingy…

Toucan that was 20 feet away from me. So cool.

There was a similar area full of llamas, goats, mini South American style kangaroos and oddly enough guinea pigs.

Unsupervised Llamas

Then there was Asia which was filled with the usual; Asian elephants, lions, tigers, rhinos and like otters. There was no Africa so I think that they kind of combined Asia with Africa. The otters heard us coming and thought we were going to feed them so they came running toward us and squealing. It was like the cutest thing I have ever seen and then we saw them getting fed. We also saw a rhino feeding. Poor Europe was a tiny little area that only had deer and goats and turkeys. It was absurd.

Me and Deer in “Europe”

As an animal lover, I had so much fun playing with the the llama and deer.

It has been so long since I have written that so much has happened since these things. But I had midterms and needed to try to do some studying. I just spent the last two days in Valencia at this festival called Las Fallas and I will write about that once I have pictures from it.

Until then.

Anda

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