All 5 of us had to check out of the hostel by 10 AM on Sunday. The other three girls were leaving Barcelona around noon so they decided to hang out in the common room until catching their buses and planes. Laura and I, however, only had a flight back to Prague at 8 pm, so in essence we had the afternoon to still sight see in Barcelona. We decided to give Gaudi a rest, and go to the aquarium. The place was right by the harbor too, which was nice. And the weather was finally perfect (on our last day) - blue skies and sunny temperatures! It felt like summer. The aquarium had a lot of interesting exhibits, but was somewhat of a letdown. The place inside was surprisingly small (it looked a lot bigger on the outside since the building was connected to its neighboring Imax movie theater) and not really worth the hefty admission ticket. But it had been a while since I had been to an aquarium, and it is one of the top visited sites in Barcelona.
Some sharks in L'Aquàrium
Some colorful fish
Not sure what these are called...
Jelly fish
Angel fish
We were finished at the aquarium earlier than we'd initially anticipated so after walking around the water for a while we headed back to the city center to go to Las Ramblas. We were able to take our time browsing here for a couple of hours. We stopped by a small eatery and got some food to go (I had a ham and mozzarella calzone). Around 4 we were back at the hostel to pick up our belongings and head to the airport. Our flight ended up being delayed an hour and a half so instead of arriving in Prague after 10, we were instead back at almost midnight... when the metros close. So, we had to take the night bus (which we hadn't previously researched since we weren't expecting our return flight to be delayed. I mean, we were flying out of Barcelona, not Paris where there are strikes...). The bus took a while but luckily 40 minutes later it stopped at I. P. Pavlova, which is within walking distance to Machova. I still waited for a night tram though since I had my luggage and that conveniently dropped me off at Jana Masaryka, 1 block away from Machova. It was by then 1 AM but we were finally back in home, sweet, Praha!
The harbor
Common room of the Paraiso hostel
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