Yet another day has passed where I am completely stoked to be in Barcelona. Partly due to two awesome Texans who have become my new best friends, Austinians if you will.
We went to a beautiful flamenco show tonight at the Palacia de la Música Catalana, which was brilliant, gorgeous, passionate, just wonderful. Then we devoured a fantastic meal at Teresa Carles. My second there today. Yep, that´s right, I liked it so much I went back the same day - and brought reinforcements.
This aft I ate their ceviche made with young coconut and avocado, the best gazpacho of my life (with cumin!) and the Catalonian cheesecake topped with prefectly roasted candied pecans, fresh cherries and honey.
Top that off with a gorgeous beetroot, apple, and cucumber juice and I was in Barcelona heaven.
Tonight we went a little heavier and I ate the smoked tofu and truffle spaghetti, and we shared some mushroom, pumpkin, and spinach croquettes. All were perfectly rich - enough to feel spoiled without feeling guilty ;) That is, until the warm chocolate lava cake with perfect vanilla ice cream came. Luckily we shared one dessert tonight instead of three like last night :P
Apart from the great food, I walked over to the Sagrada Familia cathedral today, which was stupendous. Full of marvellous architectural feats and beautiful touches by Antoni Gaudi and those who followed him. I continued on to the Gaudi designed Park Güell, which was great until the rain started to pour and I got soaked under my insufficient umbrella.
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| Insufficient Umbrella |
Other amazing random things from today: happening upon about a hundred swing dancers of all ages in a square grooving out (some with legit skillz,) and then finding myself in the middle of Barcelona´s huge Filipino Independence Day celebration being forced to eat glutenous coconut rice by a friendly woman and watching little girls do an adorable job of their traditional dances.
Great day :)
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| Park Güell in the Rain |
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