Barcelona

Barcelona, beautiful city, 100 times more happening & exciting than Copenhagen (personal thought, no offense) with so many to see & do. Major attractions in the city are actually within walking distance (well, only if you consider 2km walking distance) and naturally I walked a lot, also because one of the travel companion (the one with map) thinks that we should walk. The persistancy ends by day3 and change to taxi ride (we didn't even bother to run up & down taking metro anymore, too tired, haha).

My only regret is I never get to try paella & sangria. Also, a lot of places that we went are under construction / maintenance, preparing for the coming summer. And the cable tower from seafront to Mont Juïc that is out of service for a few weeks after we walked miles there. How nice, no specified dates, just 'few weeks'! Then again, one need to have some reasons to go back to Barcelona, isn't it? Anyway, still found some interesting stuffs to share.

A shop named 'Kuala Lumpur' which is also the name of Malaysia's capital city but has nothing to do with Kuala Lumpur. Only cloths are sold there, I was hoping for Asian stuff, too bad :s

The Barrí Gothic that we walked pass almost everday (because our hotel is just few streets away on La Rambla) without knowing that's the Gothic area. I though it was somewhere further away until day 3 where we found this symbolic gothic area mini sky-bridge.

It's a restaurant! Barcelona has a very famour 4 Gats restaurant where Picasso & Gaudi used to visit and this one is called 1 Cat, hidden in a park on Mont Juïc. At that point, we were tired, thirsty, exhausted, hungry & were so happy to see this. Food was not that great and we were soon interrupted by a group of 40 small school kids. Then again, I would still visit there again for the environment. Sitting underneath orange tree with Barcelona view ;)

Our walking journey took us to the Olympic tower. Used to host Olympic games but now it seems to me like just a deserted area. The tourist crowd, well no, the occasional small tourist group, visiting this tower is all the life form we see. Even the fountain is not functioning anymore & the water is definitely dead. Still a nice tower :)

One of our walking trip leads us to this no name (actually there should be, but I'm not sure, something like passage de sert) and we took a drinking break in this small alley. Lady in the opposite shop has good voise & she obviously likes Mariah Carey. See the gradually smaller window as the level of the building increase? Popular Catalan design for sun exposure.

We left the passage just to come back 30minutes later to visit the restaurant that we had our drink break. (We say the char grill meats while 'norrowing' the restaurant's toilet) and guess what? the best goat cheese pizza that I've ever tasted (in fact I think it's the best food for the whole trip, my grill meat was too rare), yummy yummy!

Arc de Triumph is where we spent our 30minutes after the drink break, snapped some pictures & decided the char grill steak is too tempting and turned back to that small alley. We went back to the arc again the next day to walk from the arc, through a park, to the parliament & the zoo, then continue to the Olympic beach. Amazing eh? I'm amazed with my own walking potential, haha...