Una Excursión

Today we had a group excursion through my study abroad company to two places: a cavas, or sparkling wine, plantation called Cavas Freixenet (pr: Fresh-shay-net) and to a beautiful beach town called Sitges.  The group and I were pretty tired from the night before, but we all made it to the coach bus from the metro just in time to depart at 10:00AM, an hour that many young people do not often see here in Barcelona.  Our first stop was at Cavas Freixenet and it was wonderful, I added some pictures of the outside of the vineyard and some pictures from our indoor/outdoor mini-train tour and cavas tasting! We traveled down many different layers of steps and found ourselves in deep, underground cave rooms where barrels and bottles of different types of cavas are stored by Freixenet, which actually is a very famous cavas company whose product is represented in advertisements by many famous actors and singers (even Liza Minnelli and Penelope Cruz).  There were more bottles on our train tour up the rotunda ramps on our way out of the caves up to the production area and outside of the vineyard.

After the tour and tasting, we loaded back onto the bus and headed 20 or so minutes away to lovely Sitges where a group of other students and I immediately got some lunch, bought beach towels, and hit the water. I added a few pictures of the water, but didn't want to ruin my camera by using it down closer to the water.  Not to mention, I didn't want any of the nude people's pictures on my camera.

Hope all is well in the States, I miss everyone!

 These final photos are at the Marina where there are plenty of cute restaurants. This picture is of Lauren and Evan last night when we went down to eat at one of the many restaurants along the sea at the Marina.  Apparently they bring you "chupitos", or shots, and shot glasses at the end of the meal for free?!?