Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Barcelona Epic

If there's one thing that provides confusion and excitement in Spain, it's planning trips. My final trip will be to Barcelona after classes are over and before I come home. One way tickets to Barcelona are cheap... about 60 Euro. HOWEVER, you cannot carry more than 23 Kg of luggage all together. So, that wouldn't work since I'll have both of my big suitcases. I wanted to mail one suitcase home so then I wouldn't have to worry about it at all and take it with me to the hostel and such in Barcelona. That costs 155 Euro. [$205 USD]. So, we looked into taking the AVE. A normal train to Barcelona takes 12 hours and the AVE takes 5.5 hours. The Ave tickets were 140 Euro. I was feeling pretty hopeless when ALL OF THE SUDDEN
We found a button on the AVE website that said "web price"..... 55 Euro!
Kids, I am all set.
BARCELONA / NEW YORK / ATLANTA [that beautiful city] Here I come!

*Ave - Alta Velocidad Espanola, High Speed Spain
Also, Bird.
This is a super fast, expensive train, except not so expensive when you find out you can buy tickets for 55 Euro.

1 comment:

  1. i think that the Ave is one more European experience that you Need to have

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