Europe days 21-24 :: Updated June 29

Days 21-23
Barcelona. One of my favourite european towns. We got in around 12 and made our way to a hotel I stayed in before, which is located in a mall (fun!). Its a great cheap place right by the Rambla, the main walking road in the south of the city by the beach. We walked around the area, found a cool antique market, saw the harbor and got some dinner before heading to bed. Our second day was spend first touring around the city, saw the Sagrata Familia, the huge gaudi designed church, plus a few other cool landmarks and parks before heading to the beach to relax for the afternoon. The next day was the same, some touring of ancient runes and churches then heading to the beach for the afternoon. Went out to 'Sinatra's' for dinner of Tapas, our most expensive meal.

Day 24 (aka day of hell #1)
Trip to paris. We headed for the airport really early to catch our plane to paris. got to the airport, couldn't find the ryanair area and were told that we were at teh wrong airport. ok so not the happiest news, but we had 3 hours to make it to the other airport, so lots of time right? We find out that its a 1.5 hour drive to teh other airport. too bad we didn't have a car. so we took a train back into town, and tried to get a train out to the other airport, but the only train we could get would get us there 5 minutes before our flight. so that was bad news. we checked out how much a taxi would cost, and didn't think that 140 euros was worth making it a few minutes earlier. so after trying to call ryanair and getting nowhere, we accepted our fate and knew we would get there late. so we caught the train, which was painfully slow and finally got to the Girona train station hoping the airport was right there. turned out that it wasnt. go figure. it was an extra 20 minute taxi ride to get to the airport. on the plus side we found another guy who missed the flight as well, so we didn't feel so dumb. then going to the ryanair desk we tried to get a flight later that day and coudn't get one until 10pm and they charged us an extra 150 euros just to rebook it. not nice ryanair, not nice. after waiting 10 hours in the airport, we got into 'paris' only to find that it wasn't paris but an hour bus ride away from paris. so at 12am we are stuck on this bus for an hour getting to paris. we were then dropped off in paris where we had no idea where to go. we just followed people who seemed to know where the metro was, and made our way to the station closest to our hotel. after walking for at least 15 mins we finally found our hotel. after ringing the bell we finally got someone to come and although she didn't speak english we understood enough that she had already given our room away since we were late. so now we were homeless in paris at 1am and it was raining. we were not happy. it took us at elast 30 minutes more of wandering around the dark streets of paris before we found a really creepy hotel that was open and had rooms free. We FINALLY got to sleep at about 2-3am.