Day 4 in Barcelona. Heading to the beach in a few for the second time around. Weather has been beautiful, perfect. Day one was a mess. After delayed flights, long layovers, and about 4 hours of sleep between the two of us we finally arrived in Barcelona. We wandered around a bit in la Ribera district where we're staying and hit up a tapa bar with awesome wine and awful food (raw codfish with salt?). After some socializing with some locals and some other travelers we decided to meet them at a beach party that we had heard about. Trouble was, we didn't know where the beach was. That night we got our own tour of the city first hand, without any clue as to where we were. Thanks to some help from the garbage men that were out really late at night, or was it really early in the morning, we were able to find our place at last.
The following day, we got to see some more of the town, this time with a sense of direction and purpose. We walked up La Ramblas, checked out la boqueria and walked around through the Plaza de Catalunya and la Bari Gotic. Dave had his first experience in a tapa or pinxto restaurant. At Sagardi, the food is displayed on large plates right on the bar and you just walk around and take whatever looks good. At the end of the night the bar staff counts the number of toothpicks on your plate and charges you using the honor system.
After the beach yesterday we saw some more of BCN by going to my favorite Barcelona sight seeing location, La Parque Guell. It was quite a hike to get up there but we got a good work out out of it and some beautiful sights of the whole city. It was very peaceful to sit and people watch and listen to people playing music on steel drums and guitars. We had some great Paella at a place called Salamanca on the beach in Barceloneta. Dave said he was excited to finally over-eat and that's just what we did, but we still surprisingly had leftovers that Dave may have just finished a minute ago.
Anyway, we're off to the beach. Sorry no pictures yet, I haven't figured out a way to upload them from my camera to the iPad.
Hasta luego amigos!
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