Day 10: Colombo, Indian Food & El Tablao de Carmen

Sunday was a slow day.  The excessive smoke and wind from the nose bleeds of Camp Nou had me ill.  I was somewhat miserable but I sucked it up and we slowly made our way back into the city.  Started the day at the  Colon.  Its a statue of Christopher Coloumbus - pretty cool ...as far as statues go.

From there, we headed down the Ramblas again.  Did some shopping as we made it to our intended destination, the Boqueria.  Our thought for the day was to take it easy, head to the Market and get ourselves some serious picnic supplies and make it to one of the scenic parks (either Guell or Montjuic) unfortunately, the Boqueria is closed on Sundays!  It was a damn shame.  The place was awesome.  Foodless, we decided to grab lunch at City Gate, an Indian Restaurant that our tour guide had recommended.  The food felt good and we stayed longer than we normally would (partially because I was getting tired)

After lunch, we casually made it back to Born area where we started our Fat Tire tour on Friday.  We decided to take care of our souvenir shopping.  I had been trying to get Sangria pitcher and was determined to find just the right one.  It took some time but I found even better then the one I saw the first night near the Picasso museum.  Sangrias just taste better in there :)

After that we went back to the hotel, relaxed and got ready for the evening.  We had tickets to El Tablao de Carmen.  Its a flamenco show (ironic that we would choose to see this in Barcelona.  We just didn't have the time nor the insight to go see this in Rota or Sevilla.  Since both cities are in Andalucia, known for Flamenco, it probably would have made more sense:-)   So getting to this place as joke!  It took 30 minutes from the time we got off the train.  We didn't realize that El Poble Espnayol was whole tourist attraction in itself.  Had we known, we probably would have gotten there earlier and bummed around the place.  After like 15 minutes of walking up some big, flippen mountain (so it seemed) we made it to the place.  Only missed a few minutes of it.  We were tired but the show was amazing - passionate and vibrant.

After the show, we were starving - there was dinner portion to the show however not knowing the vegetarian options, I chose not to take part.  We decided to head to the L'Eixample neighborhood for dinner.  We walked around there for awhile.  It was kinda dead (possible because it was Sunday night?) kinda creepy.  Perhaps we weren't in the cool part of the area?  Not sure, we decided to head back to our hold stand by, Born.  We looked around the various places to eat and finally decided on Karma, another Indian restaurant (yep, we ate Indian twice in one day. I don't even think I do that in the States.) It was good, really good and I was content.


Oh forgot to mention, as we were walking around trying to figure out what to eat, we did come across (just coincidence) Gaudi's Casa Batallo.  Interesting work - he likes his waves.  At night, it looks a little on the creepy side.

Night over after dinner. Lots of walking.  Lots of excitement.  Good food and now for a peaceful, drug-infused sleep