Is this blog going to turn into a food blog? Maybe. Well, when you go to Barcelona and have a 5 course meal, you gotta post pics of all of them! So this is first (forgot to take of a picture of the most delicious gazpacho. YUM.) I have a feeling I will use the word "delicious" alot in this post. This was salad, bread (the bread is red because they rub it with tomatoes) and olives. And they also brought us a salami/cheese plate.
Fried squid and shrimp. Squid was good, but some of them had weird black ink inside and a bone.
OK, I'm full now, but here's the paella. OMG, it was delicious.
Cute French guy we met while dining. He kept talking to us and I kept saying in the back of my mind "Pilar, don't tell him where we are staying tonight, have you seen the movie Taken?" HELLO, he might be a rapist! When I told Pilar this afterwards, she just laughed. This girl has traveled extensively by herself (once in a motorhome all over Spain), so she knew he wasn't a rapist. Her radar is probably more accurate than mine.
Beach. Don't look too close, some of the women didn't have their bathing suit tops on. They must have forgotten them....
Oh, here we go, more food. Mussels in a delicious sauce.
Not done yet, custard with a caramalized topping. And that little plate in the background is our little "before dessert, dessert" - little cakes with a little shot of liquor. The waiter brought two little glasses of the liquor, one was non-alcoholic and one wasn't. Well, we didn't know and Pilar drank both of them. Later he said, did your sister like the melon shot I brought her without the alcohol. Pilar drank mine! So he brought me another one.
I just had to dip my toes in the Meditteranean.
This is a church that is under construction since 1882. The architect, Antoni Gaudi, died in 1926 and they have been trying to finish it. It's amazing, but weird. It's part old church with statues and part Las Vegas with weird fruit statues and weird star things (which you can kinda see on the top here.)
Ostrich eggs at the market.
Strange fruit at market.
Another of Gaudi's buildings. Look at the strange balconies. It's sorta like the flintstones.
We walked all over the city of Barcelona. I loved it. So many people and things to see. We stayed the night in a hotel and I left for the USA on Thursday. What an incredible trip I had. Saw so many beautiful and amazing things. Thanks Pilar! I'm so lucky to have you. Can't wait to go back.
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