Vitamin B (ARCELONA)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
At the cava sangria @ L'Altra Llossa
My first visit to Barcelona in 1996 was short. During one of the better 'culture tours' - we were in Blanes - with my then housemate, we made a trip to this city. Yet that was enough to visit Barcelona in 2001, one month to decide to learn Spanish. Since then I come there almost every year . Last week I was there again, the necessary "vitamin B".
Despite the news of the death of the King of Pop was all delicious. We mainly on the beach, shops combed, made tapas, cocktails and drinks are-finally-out into Shoko (good DJs) Opium and March (nice club). The news that Michael Jackson was deceased, we received a text message while we were at the cava sangria (which is much nicer than wine). The real boom came only about that weekend. On a large sign near the entrance proclaimed nightclub Catwalk 'ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS MICHAEL JACKSON. Sunday on the beach by beach waiters walked past the moonwalk Sal Café tables and MJ honked all afternoon through the speakers.
What strikes me every time, is that it seems more and more tourists come to this seaside resort. During a dinner with two friends, an expatriate Englishman Barcelonés and told my friend that Spanish citizens will increasingly offer criticism. They did not like it that so many "guiri's' coming, people who just come to party and to the beach. Also, I'm no longer at museums and architectural highlights. I would sometimes walk through a neighborhood, but that's all it said. Catalans seem of itself a blunt folk, but when I compare them with a couple of years ago, it strikes me indeed look tougher on them - though that may be because my Spanish after 2001 has not improved . Dutch may also feel at home these days: everywhere and nowhere to rent bikes and throughout the city will find bicycle paths and parking facilities. That we have not tried - would the scooter riders and motorists already used to cyclists?
