I didn’t get to see much of Barcelona as we left early the next morning for Toulouse. We walked alot and caught lots of metro trains to find out we didn’t need to. We then caught a train to a place on the border of France called Cerbere. It was a small station and we ventured outside to look for a phone box. The little bit of Cerbere that we actually saw was very creepy. Lots of scary French grafitti and desolate hotels. It was also rainy and the trains sounded so scary!
We caught a train to Narbonne next, ready to go on to Toulouse, but the train was cancelled! We had nowhere to stay, butluckily we found four other people who loooked pretty lost too. There were two German girls called Kristina and Marina who were really friendly and nice. Then there was David and Ernesto, brothers from El Salvador. David only spoke Spanish which must have been difficult for him, but his brother was really helpful and we tried to communicate with him as he was attempting to learn English.
We found out from a taxi driver that there was a campsite 8km away, either that or we could stay in the hotel across the road which wasn’t cheap. We had no way of getting to the campsite until a Viatnamese-French guy called Michel came up and offered us a lift for free! First Michel took Ernesto and the German girls and Ernesto said he’d come back to tell us if it was all ok (it being a bit dodgy that a strange Viatnamese guy would take us to a campsite for free...). Ernesto didn’t come back which we thought was weird, but there wouldn’t have been enough room for all of us if he hadn’t. We spoke to him alot in the car on the way. As we got to the site Michel turned around, waved his cigarettes in my face and said “well I have time to kill...” this cliched phrase was largely misunderstood by me. I frroze thinking he was about to kill us, before realising he just meant he had nothing to do...
We drank some cheap wine and smoked with them. We discussed lots of foreign swearwords, being the mature people we all are. It was a really nice evening.
Alex, David, Ernesto, Kristina, Marina, Michel and Louise.
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