Woke up at 7:00am. The only food we had yesterday was a small roll on the flight from Milan and then a Baguette before the game started – oh, and the beer and the Sangria of course. By now of course, we are famished, so time to head off and find somewhere for breakfast.
First stop on the way down La Rambla is the Mercat de la Boqueria – the local market, with an amazing array of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, fish. There’s also a couple of breakfast bars, with lots of locals sitting round the bar having breakfast, reading the paper and drinking thick black coffees (atleast that was what we thought they were drinking – more on that in tomorrows installment). Being our first day, it looked a bit daunting, so we headed down La Rambla to find a little coffee shop for breakfast – coffee, orange juice and a salami roll.
Breakfast was followed by a walk down to the waterfront (Christopher Columbus’s statue) for a Walk around the marina and over to Barceloneta. Barceloneta is an old part of the town, with lots of narrow streets, surrounded on both sides with balconies draped in washing. It’s where the fishermen used to live, but is now quite trendy with lots of bars and restaurants by the marina. The apartments in the area seem absolutely tiny if the ones in the real estate agents were anything to go by – 35 to 40 square metres was normal and over 50 was big and most of those were two bedroom apartment. After several hours of wandering round the marina, the beach, Barceloneta, it was time for lunch and as the temperature was now 36 degrees (billboard by the marina), we took a couple of hours having Carpaccio, anchovies and paella – all washed down with a bottle of wine. Dinner was Tapas at a small restaurant off La Ramblas, just round the corner from the hotel. The Hotel has a restaurant, but I don’t think we’ll be eating there – it has pictures of the food in the window
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