We got up the next morning and had breakfast at Cafe Barcelona, which wasn't bad. We then did a little souvenir shopping at Placa de Catalunya before heading down to Palau de la Musica to admire more of Gaudi's designs. We also headed down to Catedral de Barcelona, but they wouldn't let Tami inside since she was wearing a tank top, so we had to settle for admiring the outside. Next up was the Museu de la Xocolata (Museum of Chocolate) which was mainly filled with Chocolate sculptures. They had something on the making of chocolate, but we'd seen that several times in Belgium already, so we were more impressed with the sculptures. Continuing the Gaudi love-fest, we went to Palau Guell, although there wasn't nearly as much there to see as the other places. You could only see the basement and the first floor. The roof looked like it would have been impressive, but you aren't allowed to go up there.
Sculpture at the corner of Palau de la Musica:
Chocolate Guitar:
At this point, we were done with sight-seeing and were ready for some beach time. We took a bus over to Port Olimico and walked down the beach until we found a little cafe on the beach to have some tapa's and a drink. We then rented a chair since we hadn't brought any beach towels and sat for awhile. We only intended to stay for a few minutes so didn't put any sunscreen on right away. We ended up staying for about 30 minutes and quickly regretted that decision. We did dip our toes into the ocean, but it was still a bit too cold for swimming.
The beach is being attacked by giant smiley lobsters!
Welcome to the beach at Barcelona:
People enjoying the beach:
We walked back up the beach back towards downtown, through the beach area called Barcoloneta. We stopped at a sushi place for a quick snack, but since they didn't deliver our order of two sushi rolls after an hour, we decided that we couldn't wait any longer and continued down the beach. We then went to Port Vell and had some gelato from a place called Dino's. By then, our sunburn was starting to really show, so we decided to take the tour bus around the beach area. We opted to stay inside the bus rather than on the opentop!
Tami and Greg on the bridge:
Once the bus made it back into town, we went up to the Swing Bridge close to the Columbus Statue, then headed up to bar called El Bosc de les Fades. It was a fairly interesting bar with a fairy theme. They had several fake trees inside with faces on them, and a pool with a fairy sitting next to it. It was quite interesting. We had an una Clara, which is a beer topped with lemonade, which hit the spot. Tami stayed there while I ran to a Pharmacy down the road to buy some aloe. We did get a few strange looks in the bar as we slathered it on our faces, but it sure did feel good.
One of the "trees" in the bar:
We debated whether we wanted to sit and have a nice relaxing dinner at a nice restauraunt or if we wanted to do the night bus tour. We looked on the beach for a place that interested us, but didn't really find anything that really piqued our interests, so instead caught a taxi back to Placa de Catalunya to catch the night bus. Tami grabbed a couple of small sandwichs from a little store that weren't very good for us to eat on the bus. The bus tour was very good, allowing us to see many things lit up at night such as the Arc de Triomf (much less impressive than the one in Paris), La Pedrera, Casa Batillo, the Columbus Statue, and the Olympic Village at Montjuic. We ended up at the Fountain Show at MNAC, which was built for the Olympics and had a really nice show every night.
La Familia Sagrada at night:
Tami in front of the fountain:
Greg in front of the fountain, his face is almost the same color as the water:
After that, we were dropped off at Placa Catalunya. Because of our sunburns and the cool night air, we were freezing and stopped off at Cafe Zurich for a hot chocolate for Tami and a cafe amb llet for me(basically coffee with milk.) I was cold enought that I had two. We also had a pastry since we never had a proper supper and were hungry. By this time, we were exhausted and stumbled back to our room for some sleep before our early morning start back to London.
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