visiting barcelona: a dream come true!

“alé alé, alé alé, força barcelona alé” this is the raucous chant that reverberated through the nou camp when i put my foot in. ah, the camp nou, home to my club, fc barcelona and might i even add, the home of football. ❤

before i even started planning my trip to paris for my internship, i knew i had to travel to barcelona. being a huge barça fan, no way i was going to miss a chance to visit barcelona. the plans waned at times throughout when i couldn’t find a good time to visit since there were no matches. but luckily just before i was leaving europe, joan gamper trophy between barça and boca juniors was supposed to happen and hence without wasting a single second, i booked my tickets and started planning for my trip :d my cousin brother who also is a barça fan and had traveled to barcelona before helped me identify must-visit places and plan my travel. i planned to travel alone and spend 5 days in barcelona.

i took an sncf train from paris to barcelona which actually was a nice experience. i reached barcelona around 10 in the morning and went directly to my hostel.

the first two days of my stay in barcelona, i explored this historic city, visited all the famous places including la sagrada familia, la rambla, park guell, plaça sant felip neri, took a cycle tour, clicked a lot of pictures, ate a lot of tapas and grew a beer-belly :d

to my surprise, bengaluru fc who were on their pre-season tour in spain were also supposed to play barcelona b at the mini estadi. i was so lucky to watch chettri, gurpreet and my favorite indian team play in barcelona. since this was a pre-season match, entry to this match was free :d amongst a lot of spanish fans, there stood a small group of enthusiastic indians who were singing, dancing and supporting bfc. hahaha, what an amazing experience it was.