Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Monday 17 September 2012 Barcelona, Spain

Spent the day getting to know the Barcelona Metro system and walking around much of the central city area.

Lyndsay and I started by walking to the market in a large tented structure just on the other side of the Hospital Clinic, nice fruit and vegetables, cheeses, lots of butchers preparing various cuts of meat, pork, beef, rabbit, chicken. Most ingenious large pair of shears bolted to workbench used to swiftly dismember rabbits and chickens to the customer’s order. We were there in middle of day and market was starting to close down.

Then we ventured on to find an old fashioned grocery store called Quilez where all the staff wear grey striped smocks. Quite low ceiling in this store with stock from floor to ceiling. Interesting extensive wine supply with prices ranging from € 4-5 up to one bottle I saw for €544.

After this we turned our attention to Vincon, the most amazing homeware ( for want of a better term)  store in what was once a private house at Diagonal and near one of the Gaudi houses ( over the back fence !!). It was over 3 floors and out into a garden area, with the top 2 floors still being architecturally spectacular. As well as the building itself, the layout and display of the products on sale was a work of art. Saw lots of beautiful things including a shopping trolley, designed similar to childs stroller, light  and very well balanced that I would love to be able to wheel to/from  New World supermarket in Devonport with our groceries.

Then walked from there back to The Patio for a well earned rest.  Later walked to the Hotel Zenith, just around the corner where we had a lovely set menu dinner out on the deck.

Today would have been my mother’s 100th birthday.