Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings: November 2004

Table talk!

Anne finding common ground with Peter’s Liberal views! Again the Asador de Aranda!

"The building is a Spanish Historical Monument and a beautiful sample of “Catalonian Modernism”, the most relevant European culture style of late 19th-early 20th centuries. A singular architectonic style in a land with plenty of traditions."

El Asador de Aranda

Peter Harvey below (at a previous meeting), his wife Jane, Anne and yours truly, spent a wonderful evening and early morning here.

http://www.asadoraranda.com/index.php The meal started with a platter of Catalan specialities; blood sausage, tripe, and other meaty bits, followed by wonderfully succulent twenty-one day old lamb. All washed down with a few glasses of local"rustic red" and finished off with a fine old brandy as a digestif. Heartily to be recommended. Not for the vegetetarians though. The conversation wasn't bad either!

Market place

The Market…Mercat de Sant Josep. I am assured there is a stall selling bugs!

Breathless!!

The view looking north from the Castell de Montjuïc. A one-euro ticket gets you on the funicular from the Paral-lel metro station, leaving a breathless half hour walk to the castle at just over 1300 meters. Well worth it. Can’t say the same of the eatery or the military museum!