This is a 100% true story and I only wish I remember more of it to tell you the sexy details.
Part 1
I had just turned 20 and it was March 12th. Finally spring break! No more finals. No more stress. No more sleepless nights, well maybe not, but at least no more unwanted sleepless nights. I got out of bed and started packing. My girlfriends would be over soon and it was time to get out of Arizona and off to Europe.
I had been waiting to see Barcelona for months. I am an architecture student and having the opportunity to see the Gaudis, up close and personal, was all I could think about. I packed my bathing suit, pants, shirts, and a few sets of sexy panties. It is Spring break after all. All packed and off to meet my girlfriends I would be traveling with.
We had an uneventful flight. Long boring, and the food was bad. We exited the BCN airport fifteen hours later and franticly blitzed for the door to have the first cigarette in nearly a day. It was heavenly and frankly so were the trim Spaniards. They were so much prettier than American boys. They were almost like girls which made them even hotter. I had experimented with a girl once my freshmen year and the thing I remember most about it was how nice it was to fuck a pretty person. There was just something about the packaging... and taking it off.
We hailed a cab and gave him the address of the hostel we had booked. The architecture on the drive was amazing. The buildings were like the impressionist paintings I had studied. It was everything I expected and more. Our hostel turned out to be not so picturesque. It was located down a dingy windy street off of an overly touristy boulevard full of street magicians and human statues.
The lobby looked like a school cafeteria and there were drunks wandering outside. At least it was relatively cheap at 23 Euros a night. It was 6:00 pm in Spain when we checked in. I unpacked my bags and Jen, Samantha, (the girlfriends I mentioned earlier) and I decided to take a nap and then go out.
Thanks to the jet lag we didn't get back out of bed until eleven o´clock at night and the only thing the three of us could think about was getting something to eat. We exited out into the street and discovered everything but the bars were closed. I managed to buy a fried thing from a Pakistani street vendor for one euro but I was still starving. We decided to drop into a bar and see if they serve food.
We found a warm looking pub and decided this looked like it might have something to eat. As it turned out it didn't. However they do serve up a lot of hot boys, and those boys serve up a lot of free drinks! After a few beers and a sex on the beech we decided to leave the boys who so graciously fed us alcohol and go clubbing. After all this is Barcelona.
It wasn't until we got into the cab that the alcohol started to hit me. It must have been the empty stomach, because I only had three drinks and my head was starting to swirl. The city blazed past my window in a haze and, next thing we were at the biggest club I have ever seen. It was three stories tall and there were hundreds of people in line. There was no way were waiting in that line. I don't care how good the club is we are way too hot for that. We flirted with the bouncers and managed to "young hot girl" our way to the front of the line. Inside it was even more packed that I expected. There must have been thousands of people in this place. It was not ten minutes after hitting the dance floor that I got separated from my friends.
I spent the next several hours wandering this mega club looking for them. I was starting to panic and beginning to realize here was no way I was going to find them in this place. I finally decided the best way for them to find me was to stay in one place. I found a place at a bar and ordered a redbull and vodka. I figured this was going to be long night and I am going to need the energy.
Well my girls must have had the same idea I had, sit and wait, because they never turned up at that bar. After what seemed like hours of sitting there and getting frustrated I started talking to a couple of cute Spanish boys sitting next to me at the bar. They were older and had long curly black hair. Not ratty like the grunge boys in America but oiled and well taken care of. The bought me another red bull and vodka and yelled over the music about the city and the club. I told them I had lost my friends and they suggested I come with them to a bar where they were meeting friends. I told them where my Hostel was and they said it is on the same street as the bar. I figured well I would have one drink with them and then go back to the hostel and wait for Jen and Samantha.
The bar was further down the windy street than the Hostel. The neighborhood started to look really sketchy and I was beginning to question if getting into a cab with two strange older men in a foreign country was a good idea. As soon as we arrived at the bar my fears were gone. The bar was called Bar Marsella and it was fantastic. It was like something out of a Van Gough painting. It must have been 200 hundred years old and was covered from floor to ceiling in wooden shelves filled with ancient unopened black bottles. The center of the bar was a cluster of old wooden bistro tables and the lighting was an electric yellow.
The waiter came by and asked for our orders. The guys, Alberto and Ramon, as I had just learned explained that this bar only serves absenta. They went on to explain that absenta is the Spanish word for Absinthe and it is very similar. Now I have had Absinthe before, well the legal stuff they sell at home, and I knew this was a drink to be careful of. I told them I had had too much to drink and there was no way I was taking a shot of that stuff.