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Opening the Window to Barcelona

Traveling alone can be a stress-testing mountain to climb but the view is worth it!

October 28th I left by train from Amsterdam Centraal Station heading to Paris where I connect to a different train to take me to Barcelona. Sounds simple right? An easy day full of views of France out my window. NOPE. Being a young American girl who has only traveled by plane before assumed (don’t ever assume) that in Paris where I got off the train, I would already be in the train station I needed to be in for my next ride. Turns out I had to go to another train station 20 minutes away by metro. Needless to say, I missed my train to Barcelona. I was freaking out! Luckily, a nice lady looked up flights on her phone for me as it would be cheaper and I would make it there around the same time I would have by train. I decided to go that route. I took a taxi to the airport and was extremely bummed I was not going to see all of France in my travels like I had planned. But I always try to look at the positives in every situation; my positive remark was that I did get to see the Eiffel Tower from the sky! By time I got to Barcelona the sun was down and all I could see was the city lights. I was so eager to wake up to the view of the city from my Airbnb.

The morning of the 29th I woke just as the sun was rising. I turned away from the window at first as I was going to continue sleeping. Then my eyes opened wide and I thought “I’m in Barcelona! I need to see it real quick...then I can keep sleeping!” Haha! So I opened my window to the view you see in the photo here. I smiled as I thought about the hell I went through to get here, but it was totally worth it.