We meet with the town hall on Tuesday to get the go ahead on this place from them. So fingers crossed.

We snuck back into the building today to take another look before we meet with our architect tomorrow. Here are some more photos I snapped of the building's second facade and the inside -

Okay, so we just got the word that the place we looked at the other day is a go. Well at least the owner is okay with it. Now we've just got to get an architect, a lawyer, approval from town hall, a corporate entity, a bank account, and a few euros to put in it, to name a few things. We were pretty jazzed about the place a few hours ago (The building is an architectural site listed in both TimeOut and Let's Go as a place to visit....Casa Comalat by by Salvador Valleri i Pupurull anyone??), but now the reality is settling in. Well all right, we're still jazzed, but it's more of a nervous energy than anything. Plus, we're used to hearing a lot of no's so I think we still don't want to get our hopes up. We'll keep you posted on how it all turns out!

Feliz Ano Nuevo!

Our new years resolution is quite simple: open a hostel. It kind of makes losing 10 lbs seem easy, doesn't it? After our real estate let-down late last year, Lauren and I were reluctant to dive back into the hostel hunt. We spent another day combing the streets for offices for rent (this time afoot because as of December 29th, our car is uninsured.) We called about 20 different places and to our surprise, people were actually responsive! Granted, the search has literally yielded three site visits but compared to last year, this is another world.

Lauren has a theory that the real estate agents are on an annual quota system and thus only the losers (ahem, Nuria!) were still working at the end of the year. So far, we've been impressed. Last week, we saw a gorgeous site that would truly be the hostel of our dreams. More than anything, we'd be estatic to offer our friends a place to stay here just because the building is so cool.