Barcelona - Paella and Tapas Everywhere!

We’re in Barca now and so far our first day here has been AWESOME! The main food (which we see everywhere here) is Paella – baked rice with seafood or chicken and Tapas – various fingerfood. Just today we ate 2 paellas each! Quite crazy coz it’s like one big pan of rice each..twice a day is a little too much carbo..but damn tasty can! Here’s the pic that sums up the meals for today:

This was our 2nd Paella for the day – a mixed seafood and chicken platter for 2. Sticky and super yummy but just a tad too salty. The first one was at a touristy place where we also had Sangria, which is a red concoction that tastes like vodka and cherry/strawberry coke, and looks like Ribena but waaay more lethal.

We shared this HUGE mug of Sangria and were damn seh after lunch that we had to go back to the hotel to chill for an hour.

But after the drowsiness wore off, we went SHOPPING!!! Shopping in Barca is pretty good! Things were generally cheap (if only they were in Sing$) at below 20euros. I usually get things at the range of 5-20 Euros, but mostly at an average of 12 Euros. The fit and cut of clothes here are so much better! :)

The later part of Day 1 here was spent at the gorgeous ‘Magic Fountain’ at Espanya (the Metro Stop). Basically it was like the Bellagio Fountain in Vegas where the water dances to the music. But it was in front of this castle like thing with many stairs, so that was very grand.

  

See, got so hard to make nice fountains meh!! Rome had like one million fountains everywhere but they were all BORING. Except maybe the Trevi Fountain, but that place was too congested and small compared to this. Rome sucks. (haha oh we had more bad experiences with service and food there even on the very last day in Rome)
Oh, and guess what, we met Joseph’s gf at the fountain too! That makes it the 3rd familiar Singaporean we met since Johnny at Amsterdam and Jiaxin at Rome. Small world..so heartwarming la. :)


Ok time for bed now, the paella we just ate is making me so so sleepy! Gd night world!