This day I spent the morning by fixing with my blog.
*The About me page is redone
*The map on the “Where am I?”-page is deleted, and instead there are two links: one for smartphones and one for computer, where the computer one is more detailed and better (but does not work well on all smartphones).
*Added some pages, for example Contact me and How to use this site.
*Also some fixes in the sidebar!

I ate a small lunch Orion made, which tasted awesome (and healthy).

Then, I went to meet my parents at the beach. After little trouble, I managed to find them.
We went for dinner at a place around the corner from their hotel. At that restaurant, you were supposed to order many smaller plates and share them. It was a small problem that my mum can’t eat meat or gluten, but we got some sort of mix in the end, even though she sadly can’t taste everything, for example this meat.

Note: the coal were edible, made out of potato
After leaving them on their hotel, I went back to the apartment again.
My host, Orion, is a professional photographer (actually really good – he won the prize “photographer of the month” from the company he is doing work for). He had earlier taught me more about how to use a camera to get the photo the way you wish, so I started experimenting in my way home. Even if not a perfect camera, I think the result is nice!

There may be better pictures on this blog in the future, I just need a way to get them from the camera to my iPhone!
Also, if interested, check out Orions website, where you can see some of his work!
http://orionlafuente.com/

The morning started with a really good sandwich made by Orion. He put salmon, tomato, avocado, tuna and some other nice stuff on dark bread, and it was both delicious and satisfying.
I was going to meet up with my german friends at their camping, and the plan was to take the bus. I went about half an hour before I had to, which was really good, as everything went straight to hell.
One guy told me I had to buy bus tickets at the metro station. The people down there did not really speak english, so I bought the wrong sort of tickets according to the bus driver. Went down again, and this time it was also the wrong ones. After refunding those, someone told me you could pay on the bus (which you could not according to the other people). They did apparently not take card though, so another bus went away. After withdrawing money, I succeeded, and were on the way. I came there 15 minutes late…
No problem though, Felix met me at the station, and we went to the beach were Christoph were waiting.

The camping they lived at were pretty nice, and five metres from the beach, but every four minutes or so an airplane went over from the airport. Not that fun, but I guess you get used to it!

We ate a late lunch at the camping, hamburger with fries for me. After that, it was time to say goodbye for real, as they were heading back the next time. I had a great time with them, and hopefully I will met them again some day!
I headed out from the camping, with the plan to walk to the airport. Of course I put out my thumb, and in less than five minutes I got picked by a guy and his wife (I think she was from Poland, not sure about him, but he had lived in Spain for eight years). I actually told him to drop me off at the exit of the highway as they were not going to the airport, but he was nice enough to drive me to the front, maybe because he liked my story about my biking life!

Because I got picked up, I had half an hour spare time. First, I used the free internet at the airport, but as it is limited to 15 minutes, it quickly ran out. I asked a stranger if she could share, and I got some 4G from her (by sharing, it was like 120 ms and 40/10. Nice!).
Finally my parents arrived, and after some hugging we went to take the train. I followed them to their hotel, and then we went out to eat, which was really nice, even though the place was so-so for that price.
We went back to the hotel room, and I got some stuff that I wanted from home, for example a Swedish flag to put on the bike, a new water bottle (lost one of my old ones), some documents and a little bit of candy. It should be enough.

4.5 kilo of glory and
satisfying destruction

Also, bonus picture taken from the sea, because I can!

Today, my friends will go home to Sweden. They were going to throw away plenty of food, beer, shower gel and so on, so I crammed everything interesting down my bags.
When they had left, I though making my vote, as there would be another four hours before my host would come home. On the way there, I saw two people with big backpacks. First, I cycled by them, but then I decided that I would have more fun talking with them than voting! I rolled up to them and asked if they had any plans for the next few hours, and if I could join them. The were going to the park by Arc de Triomf, so I went there by bike, and met up with them when they arrived with metro.
I had already eaten breakfast, but as they had not, I ate some brunch-think with them, just mixing what I had and what they had. They got all the beers as I do not drink beer (but it would have been a bad waste to pour it down the sink), and I boiled some eggs I got from the Swedes. I got a good sandwich with avocado and some other fruit stuff, and also ate a bowl with milk, yoghurt and cereals. It started raining in the beginning, so we took cover beneath the roof.

This is where we had brunch!

This was the end of the park, and some guys were doing big bubbles

I went to my host, who I had met in Paris. I saw on Facebook that he was in Barcelona, so I got to stay at his place for some time.
In the evening, I went out to buy the tripod I had seen yesterday, and also looked for new tires for the bike, as the old rear one was almost flat by now. The tripod really were nice, and I think I will have use of it on my adventures!
Me and my host went to a really cheap place, to eat some more local food. The first place was closed, but we went to another one. It was… an experience, as the service were pretty poor, but the food was good, and cheap. After that, we went on a walk while Orion showed me some nice places, before heading home again!

Waking up at ten, I felt stressed before realizing I did not have to bike today!
I took it really easy, just relaxing in the apartment while the others went to the beach. I went there later, maybe at three, and continued relaxing. On my way there, I bough a pair of cheap bath shorts (4.95) as my old ones are in south of Spain.

After going back to the apartment, I followed them out to look at some shopping in El Corte Ingles. I found a tripod that could be nice, that would fit for both my Canon PowerShot G10 and my iPhone, and I also looked at the cheaper tablets (50 euros) as a light alternative to a computer.
After the shopping, we went for dinner at Maur, some pretty nice restaurant near the apartment. I started with eating a Saber (look at the picture) and followed up with a pizza. Really nice food, and really nice to not feel hungry!

Back to the apartment again, playing some magic just hanging out before going to bed again. I had also managed to get in touch with a guy I met in Paris, so I have a place to stay at tomorrow!