On Day 5, I was very paranoid. I had all of my travel documents which were very important, and if there is one thing in Barcelona that isn't good, it's theft. A few friends left and right had lost their phones, so you can imagine that I was slightly scared about losing my stuff. I woke up rather early, packed my bags, and was ready to go to London. I went to Starbucks and had some croissants, and a good orange juice.
From there, I took a taxi to the airport, which was surprisingly only like 22 euros. I am not sure why it was so cheap but I didn't complain and gave the guy 25 euros. From there I got off and went to check in with Easyjet. I checked in and went through security just fine, and then simply directed myself to the gate. As I was on the bus that took us to the plane, I kept having fun solving my Rubik's cube to the complete surprise of the person sitting to my left who was impressed haha. Anyways, after that I boarded the plane and asked what my seat number was considering my ticket did not have one. The lady kindly looked at me and said, oh, it's free seating so just pick any seat.
I giggled, you have to love Easyjet. Upon arriving at London, which by the way was an absolutely fantastic flight where I slept probably 90% of, I took a bus from Gatwick, which was where the plane landed, to Central London. I was very confused as to the route the bus driver took to be honest because he seemed to have made a giant loop, but eventually we arrived near an underground stop and I took the underground to my hostal.
I am staying at the Generator hostal again, after two years, and I am glad that not much has changed and that I pretty much remembered my way back. I bought a razor at the hostal but it was two-bladed, which made it nearly impossible to get a clean shave without constant cleaning but oh well, now its all good.
I got back, settled in and talked a bit with one of my room-mates who seems to only speak French. Then I went down and emailed Jeff who was booking my flights as I travel the world, and luckily managed to get in touch with him so that he could book my LHR - ATL flight, so that I could return to Atlanta on Thursday at 5pm. I am really glad we got to book that because I was planning on coming back pretty early to Atlanta so I could head to Sydney, Australia.
I realized that once Friday comes along, I will have a pretty ridiculous on flight to on land average considering I have been flying a lot. And after I land in Australia, I don't think I even want to count.
Anyways, my laptop seems to not be ok with the electricity here in London as I can most definitely feel a current running through the metal part of my computer through my body because every time I touch my metal chair I feel a slight burn (nothing painful only like itchy) which is pretty mest up haha but i'm almost done typing. My laptop is sadly dying and I will eventually have to purchase a new one once I get to Mountain View, California, but until then, it will hopefully survive.
I was wondering the different ways that Barcelona could improve its security so that theft wouldn't be a problem but the dilemma is so conflicting. Barcelona is a very free city and very open to everybody. Putting a bunch of security cameras or police would not reduce crime, it would ruin the city. The only reason people steal is because they are poor, so I came to the conclusion that Barcelona needs to improve their quality of life in their city by continuing to provide amazing infrastructure all throughout the city to eventually reduce and eliminate crime. Perhaps that will work, who knows...
I luckily have not lost anything so far, travelling only with carry on luggage around the world. I feel a bit more relaxed here in London, and am about to go outside to eat and to find out where my conference actually is so that tomorrow morning I do not get lost.
It's been a lot of travelling and partying and I feel like I am getting old since only two years ago I seemed to be perfectly ok with travelling Europe for two months from hostal to hostal no problem and now I feel slightly exhausted and it has only been two countries :p.
Time for food and directions.
Take care,
Daniel.
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