All of today’s pictures are here!
6:00pm: Back at the airbnb for a rest and to do laundry and some packing before an early dinner reservation at Canete, which I have read much about, and more packing since we move on to Girona early tomorrow morning.
Started the morning at good old Satan’s Coffee for a delious flat white, then we went to Dulcinea, one more chocolate and churro spot. I think their hot chocolate was the best of the ones we had but since they make their hot chocolate with water rather than milk, I have to be honest that it all tastes, well, watery to me.
After breakfast we wandered into the Cathedral and then made it over to the Born district and the Santa Caterina market, which pales in comparison to the Boqueria. I did manage to spend all of 90 cents on some of my favorite arbequina olives. We then went to the chocolate museum, where your ticket is a chocolate bar with a QR code on it, naturally. The museum goes through the history of chocolate making and is full of chocolate sculptures. The whole place smells amazing.
After the chocolate museum, we wandered around the Born district, which has a lot of cute shops and cafes and the Santa Maria del Mar church. We had an amazing mascarpone croissant at Hoffmann pastry shop, supposedly one of the best in the city. At some point, I slipped on some grease and fell on my behind (and left knee) in the middle of a street, so that was fun. We had a delicious lunch of jamon, fried asparagus, croquettes, olives, and potatoes. I bought some clothes and came back to the airbnb to change and we put on a laundry.
We then took the metro to the beach and wandered a bit and then back through the pretty City Park before taking the metro back to Place Catalunya, where we walke down and got some fruit at the Boqueria before returning to the airbnb.
9:15pm: back at the airbnb after an incredible dinner at Bar Canete. I had read amazing things about it in numerous places and was able to get a 6:45 reservation, which was early, but it was all they had and it worked out well since there is much packing to do tonight. We had a veritable feast of a bottle of cava, tomato bread, burrata, suckling pig, steak, and desserts of molten chocolate cake and crema catalana (basically creme brulee). It was not a cheap meal but at a little over 100 euros for all of that plus a great experience of sitting at the bar while they make all the food seems rather reasonable!
Luckily we had a washer and dryer here and did two loads of laundry, and tomorrow will set off early for a quick train ride to Girona!
Today’s totals: 24,566 steps, 9.77 miles, and one badly bruised knee :(
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