The Two Days It Didn’t Rain in Barcelona | Hi-jinx + tricks

Barcelona, after all these years, is still the spot to get away from the East Coast of America. Or really from anywhere. Except this year when cheap airfare coincided with 40-day, 40-night rains. Check out the shenanigans that ensued when New York’s finest start losing their minds.

“If you follow any venerable New York skate institution on social media, you no doubt caught on to the fact that the entire city was in Barcelona for the second half of January. Thanks to some fluke in the system, round-trip flights were running about $350 direct, so what would should have been high season for Puerto Rican getawaysturned into a citywide exchange of Tompkins for MACBA.

For us, the first day and a half were fine. Then came the rain. And more rain.

By day seven, we went to sleep with a 0% chance of precipitation on the forecast for the next day. We woke up: 0%. Half-hour phone stare sessions, showers, breakfast, board set-ups — we were ready to go.”