A New Years in Barcelona. A Night to Remember!

WELL. I think we can safely say, there is no New Years like the one in Barcelona. Oh my goodness, we had the BEST night EVER.
We began drinking home made Catalan sangria in the hostel and they gave us grapes to take with us wherever we decided to go. They have a tradition here that you eat a grape for the last 12 seconds before midnight and make 3 wishes, if you eat all your grapes then your wishes come true! So we took our grapes and headed down to Las Ramblas and the main square along with the rest of the entire city! Las Ramblas is the main drag here in Barcelona, tons of shops, restaurants, and creepy people trying to sell you stuff or steal your bag. We walked the strip awhile enjoying the Christmas lights and tons of people, got a chicken shwarma, but then were starting to feel a little scared and insecure with all the creepy men talking to us and following us. Luckily, two decent and nice frenchman wished us a Happy New Year and invited us to go to a bar with them. We felt lucky to have guys to ward off the creepers from then on, and they were actually really surprised we were there walking alone because its so dangerous. They took us to this super cool bar above a sweet shop that was really old and full of locals and internationals alike! We drank the local(?) San Miguel beer, danced to the American music they were playing (which EVERYONE knew the words too, haha), and just relaxed until it was close to midnight.

Just before midnight, we all joined everyone and ran toward the main clock tower in the square for the countdown. I dont know how to describe this to you, other then comparing it to New Years Eve in New York in Times Square. Its a HUGE boulevard and a HUGE square and it was just PACKED with people. And everyone is spraying champagne, hugging each other, singing songs with strangers, taking pictures with strangers, passing around champagne and caviar, kissing each other on the cheek...it was AMAZING. Again, we were glad to have our friends who helped guide us through the crowds and warded off the drunk guys trying to kiss us.

Alyssa and I had bought tickets to a highly recommended club called Razmatazz here. It is THE place to go in Barcelona with 5 rooms of different music in each room and by some of the best DJs in the city. OMG just getting there was INCREDIBLE. The boys wanted to come with us, so we again joined the rest of the city and pushed our way onto the metro. The metro was another party where we could hardly move and everyone was again just singing songs, passing around champagne, talking in tons of different languages...SO FUN!!! Most everyone got off at the stop for the club, and thats when we knew it was going to be a good night. We followed the crowd to the club, and waited in the huge line. Magically our friends without tickets were able to sneak in with us in the shorter with-ticket line, and we all ended up being able to get in! The line to wait to buy tickets was OUT OF CONTROL, so we were really thankful for our receptionist who helped us out with that. Inside was just amazing!!! HUGE and FULL of people dancing to all different kinds of music and just having so much fun!!! We walked around a little, and danced lots, and then our feet started to hate life by around 5am, so we decided it was time to go home. We'd lost our friends by then-sad (it was a big club). So we headed home.

The night ended on a great note with 2 people throwing up on the metro and us walking from the metro to our hostel in the freezing cold in our socks.

I would also like to note, that I had 1 legit marriage proposal, a frenchman fall in love with me, and many a stranger letting us know we were "muy guapa". Only in Barcelona. All in all, a good night. haha.

Today, Alyssa wasn't feeling well and we didn't wake up until around 1pm so we just layed low awhile. Then tonight we went to see this super cool fountain show in front of these beautiful buildings a few stops away. It was on a high point in the city too, so we got to see a beautiful view of everything. Afterwards in search of something to eat, we ended up walking all the way back to our hostel...haha.

We had such an AMAZING time last night, I want to do it over and over again! Tomorrow we are going to the Picasso museum and maybe do a little shopping. Im SO excited to see the museum, its one of the reasons I've come!

Here are some fun pictures!

They have these beautiful lights all over the city streets!


Happy New Year from us!


Happy New Year from strangers!


Alyssa from the view with the fountains!