Yesterday Liz and I went for a walk through the Barri Gothic which is off Las Ramblas and is an old part of town. Barcelona was originally surrounded by walls, and this is the area where you can see these walls, narrow streets, churches and a cathedral and little shops. We of course had to make a gelato stop at the beginning of our walk to get our chocolate fix. Then we followed a walk in my walking tour book through the Gothic Quarter. Our walk lasted about 2 hours, and took us through some winding streets and narrow walkways. I finally found a tobacco shop (this is where you buy stamps) that sold international stamps! so i was able to finally mail my postcards to canada :)
At night a group of us headed to this place called the Tavern right off Las Ramblas where they have cheap sangria! On our way there I met my first Canadian in Barcelona! Her name is Tania, and she's from Quebec. She's been living here for 4 months, and starts work on Monday. So her and her friend Christian from Austria tagged along with us to the bar. We got a couple pitchers of Sangria and just hung out there for a while. After we finished those we moved onto Ovella Negra (means black sheep in Spanish) which was right next door to of course have more sangria and beer. Ovella Negra is a cavernous looking pub/bar that has mostly locals in it. We stayed for a while just chatting, laughing and enjoying the fact that we are in Barcelona loving life!
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