Short stop in Barcelona then BBK music festival

After spending over a week becoming so close with everyone from Topdeck it was sad to say goodbye but I am sure that our paths will cross again in another country sooner or later. So we jumped on the train headed for Barcelona. Unfortunately our time in Barcelona was short, Jay had visited before and listed it as one of his favourite cities and within hours of being there I soon realised why. On every corner you look there is a chic little tapas bar, a cute clothes boutique or an incredible building with architecture just out of this world. We spent majority of our short trip wandering through the maze of streets and alleys stopping at as many tapas bars as we could manage. We wandered down past the beautiful harbour, envying the owners of all the gorgeous yachts parked in the glistening waters. Then made our way to the beach where we once again envied all those smart enough to have brought with them their bathers. Although in saying that this did give us a chance to walk along the coast dipping our feet in the ocean and it gave Jayden a chance to check out all the very liberal topless spanish. We were then lucky enough to have a couple of hours in which we were able to meet up with Ashlea and her friends Jordan and Kristine. Our time with them was once again spent at tapas bars and then not that we needed it, but we also went out for dinner and scored ourselves free delicious, seafood paella all round.

Gaudi Cathedral

Jay being sad because he forgot his bathers

Our amazing room!

After a huge day out wandering the city we suddenly realised that the festival we were attending and camping at the next day was probably going to require us having a tent so the rest of our evening was spent scouring Barcelona high and low for a tent store. To our relief it was a success and after a good nights sleep in the most beautiful bed and breakfast I have ever come across (if you are ever in Barcelona I can not recommend it enough - see link below) we packed up our bags yet again and made our way to the bus station for a bus which we still hadn't booked. So it came as no surprise when the bus to get to the 35, 000 people festival was sold out, when we quite vocally showed our disappointment the man behind the counter found a way for us to get there and only a couple of hours and missing a few of our favorite bands later.

So we finally arrived in Bilbao and attempted to set up our tent in pitch black amongst a sea of others. As soon as the tent was somewhat secure we made our way to the festival and spent the rest of the evening dancing and singing away to "The Maccabees", "Bloc Party", "Snow Patrol" and "The Cure". The next morning we were able to catch a shuttle into town and were pleasantly surprised to discover the amazing town of Bilbao. They had beautiful streets lined with huge trees and every luxury store under the sun. We stumbled upon an amazing art gallery with a statue of a dog out the front made entirely out of flowers! And of course it wouldn't be a day out in Spain without our beloved friend Tapas. After a quick booze stop it was back to the festival where we got to see even more great bands such as "Radiohead", "The Kooks", "Noah and the Whale" and our favourite for the night "Mumford and Sons". The next day was incredibly painful as we were up at 6am to catch a flight and unfortunately had to pack up our tent in the pouring rain and make the trek into town, but its not a proper festival till its rained right?

We made it!

The flower dog!

Being cute in our super cute tent