InterRail Soap Series part 16: Barcelone, dancing in the rain

15) Barcelona part VI: Sagrada Familia
After visiting Parc Guëll, we went to the Sagrada Familia, of course, one of the hotspots in Barcelona. And of course: it isn’t still quite finished, but the working on it ;)

We walked around, we walked through, took pictures and decided to go up in one of the towers, so again, we queued. But then, the lovely blue sky of that day turned into. It was getting cold in just seconds. We could hear thunder far away and I started to rain. But not just a little bit, it was heavy rain. Suddenly there was thunder and lightning every minute and we were sopping wet in seconds. Streets were in minutes flowed over.   

                              

The line in which we were waiting, wasn’t covered, so we get got wet. The lady at the entrance screamed that due of the heavy rain, it was impossible to enter the tower, because of the safety. Everyone in front of us in line, managed to shelter nearby the entrance of the tower in front of the line, which was covered, so they didn’t get wet, or at least a little bit. (see picture). Dirk and I didn’t managed to get a dry spot where everybody was standing, because it was just too crowded. So we ran to the souvenir shop and as we came in, everybody was looking at us, because we were so sopping wet.

Dirk Jan and I decided to go to the subway and go back to the hotel because we were wet and cold. The sky just didn’t clear up and after minutes of waiting it was still dark grey and raining outside. The street changed into a river… Dirk and I decided to ran to the next subway station, which was around the corner. We ran… we ran hard… took the stairs down into the subway station, where everybody was sheltering. Even water flooded from the street into the station.

                                 

If you once traveled by subway in Barcelona, you probably remember how warm it is in the underground subway stations. Even in summer, underground is warmer than on the streets. But now, on this summer day, Dirk Jan and I were so cold, that we didn’t mind the heat now. In fact, we went to the platform and took a seat. We thought it was nicely warm there so that we could dry up for a little bit. So instead taking the first train, we sat there for one hour, starring at trains, arriving and departing. Security agents noticed us, probably through the security camera’s on the platform. After 45 minutes, a security agent (with dog!) came by to take a closer look at us. They probably were afraid that we were some terrorists or so…          

TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW...

Comments

[Kars]

I'm follow it every day! It's so cool to read it. I'm every day looking forward to the next part of the story!
Continue this way! It's great

Greetings,

Kars