I spent New Year's in Barcelona with a friend that flew here from the North of Spain. This was hands down the funniest New Year in my entire life! And I couldn't have asked for a better start to 2016 than strolling down the sunny streets of Barcelona with this girl, three years after my first time in Barcelona also with her. Barcelona seems to be our thing. Funny story, I met her in a shopping mall a little after I had moved to Spain and two weeks from first meeting we got on a plane headed for Barcelona. I guess it was friendship at first sight!
Getting back to New Year's Eve, the Spanish have a tradition of eating 12 grapes 12 seconds before midnight, one grape per second. This is done for good luck and each grape represents a month of the year. So at the turn of the year we were gulping down grapes as fast as we could before the year turned. In the subway tunnel. I just can't make this up!
I flew in pretty late on Thursday and we were running really late as we had agreed to hit the club before 12 o'clock before all of Barcelona went out since we hadn't bought tickets before hand. If you're planning to go out in Barcelona on New Year's, make sure you buy tickets! This will make your life a whole lot easier. So running late we only made it to the subway at when the clock struck midnight. We had of course taken the grapes with us and well, I'm sure that this is a New Year's I will never forget!
Eating the grapes in the subway must have been our good luck charm since we were planning to go to one of Barcelona's biggest clubs; Razzmatazz. We had heard that the queue can be craaazy long and it may take hours to get in. We must have stood in line for only 15 minutes when we were already let in and so we danced the night away until the dawn! And beyond.
After walking around the beautiful city the whole day, I think it's off to a little nap!
Getting back to New Year's Eve, the Spanish have a tradition of eating 12 grapes 12 seconds before midnight, one grape per second. This is done for good luck and each grape represents a month of the year. So at the turn of the year we were gulping down grapes as fast as we could before the year turned. In the subway tunnel. I just can't make this up!
I flew in pretty late on Thursday and we were running really late as we had agreed to hit the club before 12 o'clock before all of Barcelona went out since we hadn't bought tickets before hand. If you're planning to go out in Barcelona on New Year's, make sure you buy tickets! This will make your life a whole lot easier. So running late we only made it to the subway at when the clock struck midnight. We had of course taken the grapes with us and well, I'm sure that this is a New Year's I will never forget!
Eating the grapes in the subway must have been our good luck charm since we were planning to go to one of Barcelona's biggest clubs; Razzmatazz. We had heard that the queue can be craaazy long and it may take hours to get in. We must have stood in line for only 15 minutes when we were already let in and so we danced the night away until the dawn! And beyond.
After walking around the beautiful city the whole day, I think it's off to a little nap!
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