November 14, 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

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

Breathless!!

Posted by Hello 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!

Living Statue

Posted by Hello One of Barcelona’s more amusing “living statues”; this one is outside the Cathedral, and he really does play that accordion!

Columbus

Posted by Hello The Monument Colom at the foot of the Rambla. And before you ask, I did not go to the viewing platform in the globe beneath the statue.