I love Barcelona
Follow-up to Barcelona from For blog's sake
I have just returned from Barcelona. In my experience it was a very cool, beautiful, cultural, fun and relaxing city. There's a great miscellany of people all living alongside each other – locals, businesspeople, tourists, streetsellers, hookers, entertainers, travellers – and they all convene around Las Ramblas…the entertainment centre of the city.
There is also everything you could want from a city – culture, architecture and art, history, sun, beaches, an excellent metro system, brilliant bars and restaurants, shops, the list goes on…
Most city breaks tend to last a few days but we were there for six nights in total so were able to balance the 'city break' sights with the beach holiday relaxation. We generally did a tourist attraction in the morning (11am – 1pm), beach in the afternoon (1 pm – 6pm), sangria and tapas (6:30pm – 7:30pm) and then back to the hotel for a quick change before our evening out from about 9:30pm onwards. We often didn't eat dinner until 11pm and the pace of life was so chilled.
Here's a brief overview of what we did while we were there…I will try and blog some of the funny incidents that occured some other time, such as:
- Street acrobats trying to hoist my cousin, Maria, onto their shoulders as part of their act
- Losing my skirt
- Having my handbag stolen
- Potentially not having any money
- Ordering steak tartar not realising it was raw steak
Anyway, back to what we did…
First night – Wednesday
Arrived at the hotel
Dinnner: Pizza Mazarno, Las Ramblas
Day One – Thursday
Beach: Nova Icaria
Dinner: Tapas bar in Placa de la Seu Maria or Katrina - can you remember the name of the restaurant?
Bars: Went to Placa Reial. Had a drink in an Irish bar and then went to Jamboree
Day Two – Friday
Sights: Sagrada Familia
Beach: Ventured to Bogatell but wasn't so nice so went to Nova Icaria
Dinner: Steak tartar place – name?
Bars: Fonfone, Moog, Pipa Club (don't ask!)
Day Three – Saturday
Sights: Museu Picasso
Beach: Barceloneta
Dinner: Fritz, Port Olympico
Bars: CDLC, tried Catwalk but was too late to get in.
Day Four – Sunday
Beach: Nova Icaria
Sights: Estadi Olimpic, Palau Nacional at Monjuic, Magic Fountain
Dinner: Txapella Tapas Bar, Passeig de Gracia (the best tapas ever!!)
Day Five – Monday
Sights: Parc Guell
Beach: Nova Icaria
Dinner: Agua, Port Olimpico
Bars: CDLC then had to go to police station to report stolen handbag(!)
Day Six – Tuesday (our last day)
Beach: Nova Icaria
Dinner: Tapas at Txapela before heading to the airport
More photos in the gallery
Eleanor Lovell
27 Jul 2006 15:43
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Can we assume you didn't need to wear said skirt at the time it went missing?
28 Jul 2006, 01:55
Bullet point 5 – classic Ellie! :D
28 Jul 2006, 08:24
Eleanor Lovell
Luke – I don't think it's safe to assume anything…although you are kind of right. I wasn't wearing it when it went missing which is a relief. We were at the beach and I had a long top on which adequately covered by bikini but I then had to go to Estadi Olimpic and Monjuic with just this top on and it did have a slit to the waist but wasn't too obvious!
Casey – I realise now that I need to brush up my culinary knowledge although you will be proud…I did manage to eat half of it! When the waiter came to collect my plate he asked what was wrong with it and I said: "I thought it would be cooked!". I think he felt a bit guilty as he had reccommended it to me so he then gave me free chocolate cake and ice cream! :)
28 Jul 2006, 09:14
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