Most of us associate with a trip to the Capital of Catalonia a full daily schedule: starting in the picturesque Parque Guell, about the Sagrada Familia As the city’s most famous church, FC Barcelona Football Museum – This city really seems to have the right activities and sights ready for everyone. We also went to the big city on this sunny morning, but if our daily schedule should look a little different: only a few subway stations from the main station, we went straight to the turmoil of a constantly pulsating big city.
If we were used to our manageable little village in the middle of the Spanish prairie from the last two weeks that we had spent in this country to this day, we were now looking forward to full roads, priceless drink prices, wildly gesticulating Spaniards and disorientation tourists.
“In the middle, instead of just there” – was probably the motto of today’s trip. At 10 a.m. – an obviously rather unchristian time for vacationing Spaniards – admittedly only to a limited extent. In the meantime, we had fully engaged in the habits of the Spaniards.
A Cafe Solo Should remedy this morning – priceless, but absolutely necessary. So there we stood, we deliberately wanted to evade the usual “Barcelona Touri stitch”, take the flow of the city with us, and (experience) the Spanish life of this city for a day.
Admittedly, a bit unthought-out in retrospect – at least one city map would have saved us a detour at one point or another – but who cares, we were here, in a good mood, eagerly for new impressions, a new metropolis. Touri, or not – on our camera around our neck and our complexion, which looks more like a Sylt vacation, it was to be seen anyway – if the Plaça Catalunya be our first goal.
A place full of people, excursion buses in line and limb, framed by countless Spanish shopping chains. We could hardly get enough of each other Zara, Mango and Co., closely followed by our fascination for Gucci, Cartier and Chanel, on whose shop windows our noses only seemed to stick – a handbag cost just as much here as a BAföG loan for an entire study. After a short shopping madness and a “Oh, we would only have so much money”, the small streets and mysterious places in the city seemed to be magically attracted to us.
After a good lunch around 3 p.m., Seafood and Aioli included, we made our way through this Gothic Quarter the city. Winding alleys, surrounded by high house facades with 2 square meters of balcony, as well as small shops full of antiques and souvenirs, drew a picturesque picture of the “Old Barcelona”.
Here we had it – our very personal impression of the city, far from the crowded attractions with their long queues in the summer time, we were able to experience Barcelona in our own way. An ice cream in one hand, a leather bracelet around the other and with many new impressions we started our way home.
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