Day 18, May 29, 2014
Our last day in Barcelona. We were anxious to get out and enjoy the day and realized
as we locked the door that we didn’t have breakfast. Oh well, at least we had a
coffee. We headed toward the El Gotic neighbourhood and discovered yet another
indoor market and had a small snack to tide us over. We walked into a huge
building that housed the excavated ruins of the El Born Market circa 1775. It
was a market designed after the French model of hygiene and morality.
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| El Born Market circa 1775 |
The El
Born neighbourhood is also the location of the Picasso Museum, which had one of the longest lineups we have seen. We
don’t do lineups. We saw the grand entrance of the Cathedral whose interior we
explored days ago.
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| A passion |
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| Upper window of the Help Museum |
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| Help Museum balcony |
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| Street art |
We were searching for a small tapas bar and looked at so
many menus before we found a quaint little bar that fit the bill. One tapas of
the day (tuna empanadillas) plus a glass of wine for 2.50 Euros. I had been
craving anchovies since I had the one in Herceg Novi so we also ordered white
anchovies in oil, patatas bravas and chorizo in spicy sauce.
On the way home we stopped in
at the Boqueria Market to buy some fixings for our tapas dinner we were going
to prepare at our apartment and have with our first sangria, a proper send off.
We also stopped at Carrefour to buy
smoked paprika and saffron, key ingredients, so that we could make paella at
some point down the road. I already have a variation in mind which will include
chicken, shrimp, scallops, and chorizo.
Now we pack.
I am sorry that your adventure has come to an end as I will miss following the blog, but I am happy to have you back home. We miss you guys!
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