For some reason my post from yesterday didn't feed to my social media. The link is here and the many pictures as videos are here. All of today’s many pictures are here (but if you are not interested in Gaudi architecture, these pictures are not for you).
3:30pm: sitting in the cafe at La Pedrera, the third and final Gaudi stop today to rest before going into the house. Got a terrible night sleep because some jerk in the building had a party all night long. Set off for the Sagrada Familia around 8. Had to take two subway lines to get there and then found a bakery that took forever but we were able to get a quick breakfast before visiting the church, which I'd inexplicably skipped last time I was here. It's truly incredible, despite the million (or two hundred, whatever) circular stairs down from the towers. After visiting the church, and its shop of course, we wandered through the Eixample district to one of the main streets. We found tapas 24, a place I'd read much about, and got a coffee before their tapas service started at 12:30. For lunch we got some kind of ham, cheese, truffle sandwich, olives, traditional local bread with tomato, and fideos, which is like paella but with local noodles and sausage. For everything it was about 40 euros, which seems quite reasonable considering the quality.
Then I found cacao sampaka, a fancy chocolate store, and spent all my money. Bought a little more chocolate in yet another store and then we went to the first Gaudi house, casa battlo, which is as wild as one would expect from Gaudi. Bought some earrings in the gift shop and here we are with some down time before the second house.
6:45pm - back at the airbnb for a break before what I think will be an early dinner. We went into Casa Mila early because we are tired and it was starting to rain - they let us in early and it is a good thing because the rooftop terrace is the best thing about this house and they close it in the rain. And that is probably a good thing because it was a little treacherous already. Took the metro back to the airbnb and i wandered around a little bit and bought a handmade necklace (the guy in the shop had to call and ask his mom how much it was), and some more chocolate. I have a problem, ok?
10:15: back at the airbnb after dinner at Bar Brutal in the Born district, which was basically ham on top of pork on top of more pork product, but it was delicious. We ended up there after trying a few places I had written down and by 8pm they were already packed, maybe because it’s Saturday? After dinner just wandered around some and made it back for the earely night.
Today’s walking totals: 19,607 steps, “only” 7.8 miles.
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