Primavera Sound 1

I cooked all the meals for us while we were staying in the apartment, and they were all delicious. I wish I had taken pictures.

We arrived a night and a day before the festival, so we decided to walk down La Rambla (the biggest shopping/tourist street in the city), go to the beach, and take a look at the place where the festival was being held. It was a great walk, we stopped at Mcdonalds (that is now 4 continents of very similar food) and at the big market whose name I cannot spell, but it is something like Bouqueria or something, and ate delicious fresh fruit for very reasonable prices. Everyone had said the beach sucked because it wasn't natural, but I thought it wasn't too bad, especially because it wasn't crowded at all. We walked a long the entire Barcelona coastline, reached the venue after several hours of very pleasant walking, and returned to our apartment in the evening. The metro in barcelona is much cheaper than london and the coverage is just as good.

The next day we had meant to get to the venue early to get our wristbands, but we all slept in so by the time we got there it had already started and there was a huge line. Apparently getting up earlier wouldn't have made any difference as I met someone who went down 4 hours before the first band and still got a sunburn from waiting in line so long. Oh well. It was really well organised, the weather was beautiful, and on the first day I had no conflicts with bands I wanted to see playing at the same time.

The only thing that sucked was getting back, because the subway had stopped running, so we took on of the promised coaches. The line took an hour and there did not seem to be enough busses running. They also dropped us fairly far from our apartment so we had to cab the rest of the way. After that I vowed NEVER AGAIN. And I knew it would be OK because on saturdays the barcelona metro runs 5am to 5pm.