Walking, I live an hour away from the University of Barcelona and el centro. The one time I did attempt to walk, I went straight up Gran Via to the Placa Espanya and Carrer de la Creu Coberta until I finally reached Collblanc. It was hot and tiring and wouldn’t have been worth it if it wasn’t for the Place Espanya. It’s a huge roundabout surrounded by enormous buildings and I will have to go back sometime.
What’s great about my neighborhood is the plethora of options for transportation. I live about three blocks from the Collblanc metro station (blue line or L5), there are bus and nitbus stations right on my block and around the corner is the tram. I have now taken about every form of transport. I usually take the bus (number 54) to school because I can look out the window. It takes Collblanc to Av. de Madrid to Muntaner (approximately). The metro is faster, but hotter and usually has more people. I have to transfer to the red line/L1 at Placa de Sants to make it to the University. The tram can’t take me all the way to school, but it goes to Diagonal, which bisects Barcelona. The tram is certainly the fastest and cleanest of all the options. When I went to Tibidabo last weekend, I had to transfer to L7, part of FGC, a line of underground trams that fall under Catalunya jurisdiction. I’ve also now taken the nitbus, the boon of the late night partiers, which starts running after the rest of TMB have shut down for the night. The N3 gets me right to my block.
I took the nitbus last night because I went to the Harlem Jazz Club (yeah, really) to see a flamenco performance. It was a really good time and was much more successful than seeing that incredibly unsettling Almodovar film earlier in the day. Afterwards, we broke into two groups, some people going off to a discoteca to see a dubstep battle, the rest of us opting for tapas and sangria (I picked tapas). When I got home, it was just me and the stray cats.
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