Some of my favorite things were walking through the narrow cobblestone streets and alleyways that opened out into hidden plazas and expansive squares. Around each corner was a surprise. That is how we came across a little coffee shop, ‘Bliss’, and its fabulously rich hot chocolate. Just around the corner was a little shop where my sister and I were awed but the owners collection of ethnic art, jewelry, and objects. We had to buy something which turned out to be earrings as a gift for our other sister.
Tapas, tapas, y tapas! The food was next on my list of favorites and the small bites, tapas, made it oh so easy to taste so many good things. Simple toppings on homemade breads, rich complex soups, fresh seafood or little fried croquettes with a glass of cava or cerveza in the afternoon and we were energized for more shopping and sightseeing.
A recommendation: Take the hop-on hop-off tour bus, Bus Turistic, around the city at least once while you are there. Pay one price, about 22€, and you have access to all the routes of the tour all day long. Ride it to each of the events, historic locations or shopping districts that are a must see. Get off, stay a while, then catch the next tour bus when it comes along about every fifteen minutes. This was our day on Friday after we were too exhausted to do much else. Just riding and seeing more facets of this beautiful city.
My soft leather walking shoes did not let me down even though we walked miles and miles. We shopped along La Rambla and Placa de Catalunya in and out of small boutiques and the massive Cortes Ingles. We shopped through the Bari Gotic and them took the metro to Avenguda Diagnal to L’illa. We shopped through arts and crafts and antiques offered by street vendors and open markets then down to Port Vell and the mall on the pier. The iconic Desigual fashions were everywhere.
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