The Barcelona Taste, Gotico Tour

We headed off to walk about 1/2 a mile to meet up with our tapas food tour guide, Laura.  Wow.  What a fun time that was.  Laura took us to 3 restaurants for 2 savory tastings and 1 sweet.  We wandered through a lot of back alleys and side streets in between.  So many buildings built soooo long ago, it is hard to compared. We just do not have the same feeling of history at home.

an amazing cathedral

Laura, our guide, in front of Tapeo Bar

We started with a glass of vermouth on ice.  My picture did not turn out.

eggplant sandwiches

ground octopus, sort of like a tuna salad

an amazing fritata

beans and cod

very tender pork cheeks with onions and mushrooms.  We also had olives. 

the chef.

Then we walked a round to our next place.

a Lichtenstein

Belmonte

We were at a table upstairs

baked vegetables. traditionally it is with eggplant and tomatoes for sure and then whatever else they want to include.

fabulous potato cakes

bread with a tomato rub

a salad with avocado, tomatoes, peppers and onions. 

Here we had a white wine, a vinyet.

sausage on toast and salmon on toast.  

Whew.  We were getting pretty full by this time.  Both places seemed very generous with the amount of food.  

street performers

Bodega la Palma for dessert

The 3rd beverage was a cava.  

a cheesecake or penna cota type of dish, a creme brulee type and a chocolate dish.  The creme brulee dish was my favorite. 

But the chocolate was the prettiest

By this time we were not only stuffed but we were nearly zombies, having been up for a day and a half straight.  Laura got us back to our starting point so that we could find our way home.  It is a good thing because I was totally lost.  

This was a huge stainless steel sculpture by Liechennay, that was rotating.  There were several other sculptures there as well.

Only disappointment - absolutely no view of the full moon.  Argh!!

We got back to the hotel and met in the lobby just long enough to come up with a plan for tomorrow.  For some reason, Sharon and Kris are not able to get the wifi.  Jeanne and I are having no problems with that.  They are very frustrated.  

Time to crash.