Barcelona - week one

It’s been one week since I arrived in my new home town. So, time for a first recap!

Some things I did this week:

• mostly explored my new neighbourhood Eixample and walked an average of 19.075 steps per day.

• found myself a library near my apartment where I now go every morning.

• went to the rooftop of Las Arenas to watch the sunset.

• went to a language exchange cafe to practice my Spanish and ended up at a guy’s house with a group to play music.

• learnt the basics of tango.

• took a lot of pictures with my new camera.

• enjoyed the sun to the fullest at the Jardins de Mossèn Costa i Llobera.

This week’s mostly been about creating a routine here. Getting up ‘early’ and going to the library every morning helped a lot. It’s the place where I schedule my weekly plans, look up what I want to do the next two months, what I need for my South America trip, learn Spanish etc. I also started running again, after not going for a run for a whole month after my half marathon in February.

For the weekend, I decided to go to a language exchange cafe on Friday. My roommate told me about the app Meetup and that’s where I found out about this event. I was a bit nervous to go there all by myself at first, but the evening turned out great!

Since I went to bed at 4am on Friday, I decided to take it slow on Saturday. I had a call with my friend Barbara, who had just arrived in Cancún, Mexico. She’ll be traveling Central America all by herself and we’ll meet in Colombia to explore South America together. Even with a time difference of seven hours and more than 8000 km’s apart from each other, we still continue to have our weekly (for now online) chat. Talking about routines 😉.

See you next week!