So who's up for a pint in Barcelona on Wednesday night?
Drop us a 'Hi' or whatever whacky way you want to register your interest, and I can find a pub, time and codeword, then send everyone a message nearer to the time.
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we're
planning on staying up drinking on weds to train our bodies for the whole going to bed at 7am business, which I am crap at. Feel free to join!
this sounds like a good plan.
agreed
my sleep patern at the moment are Asleep 12-1am, Wake Up 6-7am. Really need some practise before Primavera kicks off
I don't get in till thursday night
Flight gets in at like half 5, got to get into barca, find apartment, sort out the inevitable kerfuffle of getting tickets using passport and print out of emails, and hopefully make it to site in time for BSP/Dr octagon.
Excited I am.
Is it a bit trouble..
sorting tickets out then?
dunno
never been before, but it seems like it might be. Got to take ID (passport) and a printout of your confirmation email to some place on site.
I'm worried about losing my passport and stuff.
This is onyl if you bought early on paypal though. Atbay bought his on seetickets and got an actual physical ticket thing. bastard.
i'm touching mine now
mmmmmm
MMMMMMM, danone.
johnson
and family company
an*
a*
getting tickets like that is pretty easy
they have tents and such where you pick the stuff up infront of the entrance to the festival, if you go a couple of hours before the start on the first day there aint even really any queues.
lol
we wont get there till 7/8
awesome...
doesn't sound like too much of a headache.
Yes - It is a pain in the arse collecting tickets...
And - I imagine with this See Tickets thing, you'll have to queue to exchange your ticket for a wristband / credit card thing and then queue to get into the arena.
And then queue AGAIN for beer tokens (But, they have Beer ghostbusters, who take cash as well.)
Trick is get there EARLY wristband up, go back into town and then come back in at 6pm time. Otherwise you've got a 90 min queue(s).
CAN'T WAIT. In exactly 2 weeks I'll be getting off my plane in Barcelona...
password:
Ae! Bastardo!
Who's been before then?
Where's nice to drink around the City centre?
scobie's irish bar
lulz.
we usually
go to Bar Marsella on the Wednesday night. They specialise in absinthe.
http://www.momondo.com/blogs/momondo/archive/2007/11/23/go-absinthe-barcelona.aspx
ooh yes please!
cheers for that, i might try to take my friends there.
Looks very inviting and ultimately
a very dangerous start to the weekend.
that does look good...
although I was thinking something a bit more chilled! But whatever, start as we mean to go on and all that.
my mum just e-mailed me saying:
"you'd better take plenty of water to Barca as they're in the middle of a drought and bringing water in by ships!!!"
is this true? maybe i should check the news before posting this.
yup, there is a drought.
I don't think i'll be drinking much water though.
WAHAY LADS WATCHING FOOTY LAGER LAGER LAGER
but seriously i'll bring some evian.
we'll be about
whether or not we'll be coherant enough. first night on holiday. ouch.
i shall be around
and that absinthe bar looks tempting...
Just to clear any confusion
they do sell all other drinks too! And it's quite cheap from what I remember.
When will it be appropriate to start a "roll call" thread?
This is hopefully going to be my highlight of the year: i'm not going anywhere else this year. I'm so mega excited
I reckon the week before.
I was just hoping to get the ball rolling on a meet for the first night, seeing as some people will be on their tod (me, for one).
bar marsella
was my hot plan. i guess i was RIGHT, YEAH, ABSINTHE.
yes, i am hoping this too
as last weekend and this weekend are filling me with massive jealousy and i need to get my own back.
not long to go now!
i think we need to get stickers
that say DiSser. I think so.
^DiSser
sounds good to me
with any luck should be in barcelona by wednesday evening.
you should come for some absinthe!
indeed
but i'm told they sell other drinks too. so probably just a cerveza (which is spanish for beer btw). you have to say it with a lisp.
i've never had....
absinthe before. could get messy.
i got a spanish
girl to teach me how to pronounce 'primavera'
so i don't fail at life, too hard.
ooh is it tricky
have i been doing it wrong this whole time by just pronouncing it exactly how it looks?
v = b
in spanish, doesn't it?
sort of
it's like
"pre-my-bay-dah"
nice
from this day thats how i'll attempt to pronounce it...
I'll be there on Wednesday!
I was going to kip in Girona airport though, I have nowhere to stay until Thursday. :-(
that sounds hellish
i'd rather get down to barca and kip on the beach.
don't kip on the beach
1st of all, it's not a beach
2nd, it's a notoriously pickpockety city
3rd, airports are temperature controlled.
4th: get someone nice from the internet to put you up
this is probably why i don't write travel guides for a living
depends
i like to live on the wild side.
but barcelona city beach
on my own
asleep
nah
definitely 4., and not 1.
someone should put Gary up. not only is he the DiS snapper he's a lovely man to boot...
plus:
he can drink his own body weight in Jager. this has to be a good thing.
^haha
The worst advice ever. I'd be mugged to bits.
i should arrive
just after 4 on wednesday. oh yeah.
shameless bump
two weeks today. fingers crossed the drought is over.
Does anyone
Know any of the bands playing at Apolo on the Wednesday? Any worth seeing?
I've only...
heard of the clientele out of that group. remember them being alright - will have to refamiliarise myself with them.
my advice is that they're crap
from a pretty trusted source.
but that's just hearsay really.
The Clientele
are one of the dullest bands it's been my displeasure to watch (twice).
Crap is a bit harsh;
they're nice-but-dull. 15 minutes of them at ATP was more than enough.
wednesday-thursday
I'm gonna go for this kind of schedule:
Get drunk on way to airport.
Get drunk in airport.
Get drunk on plane.
Land in Barcelona.
Get beer.
Sit on bus to center.
Drink beer on metro to flat.
Get to flat.
Drink beer.
Have amazing travel-nap.
Wake up at midnight.
Go to local bar.
Drink beer till 4am.
Wander home.
Smoke acquired hashish.
Watch DVD.
Sleep around 6am.
Wake up at midday.
Hang over.
Eat lunch.
Sit on beach.
Feel better.
Take swim.
Go back.
Shower, dinner, clothes.
Walk to forum.
Acclimatise.
Watch:
MGMT 19:30
The Notwist 20:45
Edan with guest Dagha 21:10
Public Enemy 22:15
Shipping News 22:45
Portishead 23:45
Boris 00:00
Explosions In The Sky 01:15
Vampire Weekend 02:30
Thomas Brinkmann 03:00
Walk home. Sleep.
Not that I have any plans, this just seems likely.
haha
not one for planning, eh?
I just can't wait to get on my flight. The rest will fall into place I'm sure. They speak English in Spain, righ?
no
.
ENON
HEALTH
BSP
BORIS
VOXTROT
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
might have a pair of access all area tickets as I know someone in one of the bands playing
GET IN!!!!
Planning to pitch the idea to a nice girl I like at work. :)
gonna ressurect this thread....
With this:
This place looked like the general consensus for wednesday night: Bar Marsella.
Here’s a map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bar+Marsella,+barcelona&ie=UTF8&ll=41.375778,2.178297&spn=0.014041,0.039997&z=15
According to a website: “Dali, Picasso, Gaud, Heminway... and many others famous artists used to come to the Bar Marsella to have a drink. Order an absinthe, a very strong french beverage, today forbidden in France, guess why! Open since 1820, probably the very first bar in Barcelona. Today you'll see locals, young alternative people and a few nostalgics from the french Mai 68” - they do beer and stuff to. But absinthe sounds like fun.
Say hi and stuff
does the barcelona metro system go that far?
seems like a bit of a trek.
It's near the Ramblas
ie - pretty damn central!
i'm sure it is
but that map is of marseille!
i might well pop in there at some point then. if you see somebody looking lost and bewildered with an army backpack, it might well be me.
haha
don't know why that came up. How odd.
That's better:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bar+Marsella,+barcelona&ie=UTF8&ll=41.388207,2.183189&spn=0.028076,0.079994&z=14&iwloc=A
ah, it's done it again!
Copy and paste the how thing
here's what you need:
http://tinyurl.com/4enmru
don't think my flight gets in til 10 or so, but i'll aim to get there late and kick off the nocturnal habits...
i won't know who anyone is though :)
that looks like about
a 10 min. walk from my hostel.
i too won't know anyone though.
I hope to be there...
My plan is to arrive early Wednesday evening, hit each of Barcelona's 3 Tiki bars, then finish off in the Marsella.
I'm...
gonna go to a pub to watch the England match.
Pub: http://tinyurl.com/5geaet
Me: http://tinyurl.com/57n6xf
Come say hi (My name is Robin) and I'll buy you a pint (maybe).
Then go DiSer spotting at that Absinthe place I guess.
Just going to be
dinner and Absinthe bar for me.
This. Time. Tomorrow!
This might be a bit late but
I don´t think you need to take your passport along, last year they accepted my debit card as ID when I picked up my tickets.
Anyway, I don´t really know y´all but I´ll see if the missus is up for an absinthe tonight... we just got off the boat from Morocco tho so an early one might be in order.