No Third day I went for another free walking tour, this time go for Gothic tour. Natalia the tour guide is freaking tall. I think like one head + taller than me. She's from Poland, studying Pastry here in Spain. She guided us through Las ramblas, then see some churches along the area, a brick on a building with Jewish letters (during Spanish inquisition) and how catalans are catalans first and never watch Spain International games. We ended the tour with a meal again this time a local specialty called Fideua. Similar to paella just that with noodles like bihun. After that I visited Palau Guell which was good. The architecture was beautiful. Very smooth transition from room to room, floor to floor. Rooftop is the highlight as usual for gaudi.
Ended with dinner at Quimet & Quimet. It'd tapas with canned food. Long queue, but eat and go style so it's quite fast. Easy to order but have to be patient. The food is good. I ordered two bread serve and one assorted fish and vege. Yums if u asked me... Made a mistake with the drink. I tot Reserved is better but forgot blanc/bianco means white.. Lol. Anyway after that I bought a velvet cake from spice. It was good! Very rich. But I was quite full too so didn't enjoy it as much as I should have. Ate it at the Plaza catalunya.
Fourth day, which is my last full day in Barcelona, I went as early as I could to Park Guell, but I was slightly lost. When I reached (probably 30-35mins later than I planned) tickets were only for 1pm onwards. :l. I walked around the park (no entrance to palace). Went up the hill and enjoyed the good view of the whole city of Barcelona.
After park Guell, head to the famous market Mercado de la Boqueria. Had a fake Burrito for five euro, drank a cup of juice and ate paella with Squid ink. Yums but full! Visited Picasso museum. Didn't enjoy the later paintings but his older ones were amazing, those drawn during his early 20s. La Ola! (the wave) is fantastic. Wished I took a photo of it...
After Picasso, walked to the big fish, see the sea and then head to arc. Wanted to visit a library (apparently very good design) but it was close. Realized that this area near the arc is also a Chinese area. Shopped in a asian supermarket. Chilled abit because was tired. Decided then to head to Plaza espanya. There's some YouTube gamer conference going on. Would have gone if I knew about it.
Ordered a rose Amarino Gelato. Meh. But pretty..
Head towards Palau National, the modern museum. The fountain in front of it is huge and wow. Very wide... There were also a couple taking their wedding shots in front of the museum..
Walked to Olympic Park and look around. Took some photos. Saw two guys and a kid playing basketball. Went further up, they open up their stadium for public to have games/competition, which I think is a good way to keep the place alive and not a white elephant. I walked back to main road, took metro... Went and visit Casa mila. It was almost similar to Palau Guell. But good part is that they show designs of other gaudi buildings. Some are outskirt which I think would have been fun if I could visit one of these. Went to the rooftop, took loads of photos. Met a a Malaysian family, a couple doing PDA and a Chinese who don't bother taking good photo for me. :(
After Casa, decided to eat hotdog for dinner. Yums! Ordered malagueya (which I chose because it sounded from malaga, instead of ordering a sausage from Germany) - * just Googled - couldn't find the sausage by that name.. Lol
Wanted to try delacream but they closed by 930. Felt bad because spoke to the owner earlier and told her I will be back. She visited Malaysia before..
Bought more snacks from bonpreu for tmr's train to Paris. OMG the cake I bought was sooooooo good!
And that's it.!
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