Barcelona

Day 27 Tues 23/5/17  A chilled day in Barcelona. After a leisurely start we walked down into Gracia with Katy to a place she recommended for brunch. Mama’s Café was a super little place with a terrace at the back where we had a lovely breakfast, mushroom & spinach omelette for me, fried eggs with avocado for Kay and Katy ( the chef couldn't manage the poached eggs they had requested), all accompanied by freshly squeezed orange juice and really good coffee.  Katy then headed off to work and we walked down towards Place Catalunya and found a book shop, Casa de Llibres, where we browsed the travel section and found a very good Spanish road map book, similar to the maps in the Michelin book we used in France. We pored over the map and decided on our next stop after The Doyles, which will probably be a Parador. We walked on down Rambla Catalunya and stopped for a drink in one of the cafes in the middle of the boulevard. Kay fancied a look in C&A and I went to El Corte Ingles to buy some water, snacks and I picked up a couple of Magnums. When I found Kay in C&A she bought a top and we left the store, at which point I could produce the Magnums which were fine but definitely needed to be eaten reasonably quickly before they melted!   Our plan was to walk to the harbour and spent some lazy time on the rooftop terrace at the 1881 restaurant on the roof of the museum but when we got there we were disappointed to find that the restaurant was closed for a private function. So instead we walked back up into el Born and had a couple of drinks in cafes in the Placa Santa Maria deal Mar and then had a quick look around the eponymous church. We walked back up to Gracia and met Katy at the Cadaques restaurant about 7:30. S

The tower in the middle of the square we had dinner

Placa de Rius

After a nice dinner and a couple of drinks Louise joined us about 9:30 and had something to eat whilst we all had some more drinks and chat. The service was interesting, several times it seemed as though our order was lost until we queried it, which was strange because they used an electronic wifi ordering system. There was a strange incident later in the evening when the very large dog of a diner at a neighbouring restaurant tripped up one of the waiters at our restaurant, he went down in a heap and the plates of food he was carrying smashed over the ground. The owner of the dog didn’t seem very apologetic or even concerned for the waiter who took quite a tumble.