Since we haven't woken up before 11am in Barcelona we decided to hit up la boqueria again for "breakfast" due to its proximity and diversity of fresh goods. Today was our first day of strong rains on and off all day. We decided to take the car up to the main shopping strip which spans, supposedly, over 5km. Avoiding our Parisian 'errors' of buying items that are priced higher in euro than in Canadian back home we bought some clothes from local designers. They have some pretty funky stuff here, think of MC Hammer pants but that taper from the knee to the foot. Yup, wet diaper look in the bottom is what you get. Very popular here. After we visited la Sagrada Familia and Guell Park. Antonio Gaudi's architecture is very interesting and needless to say Toronto would be much more appealing if they took a little less of the sharp angle approach and a bit more Gaudi-ness. After some Googling of 'best paella Barcelona' we were headed to Pitarra Cuina courtesy of the Paella Professor for some authentic Valencian paella. The paella was excellent and the price was even better. The daily menu which they conveniently didn't hand out when we entered was 15 EUR, including entree (appy), main course, dessert, bread and a bottle of wine (well the bottle was labelled wine). Definitely made it worth the walk down the back alleys of Hostel-land past the Rasta’s peddling their wares along with the Indians hocking theirs. Tonight we pack up and prepare to say adios to Barcelona and venture back up to France and traverse the French Rivera.
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