Run for your lives

What a wonderful day!

Yesterday was an eventful Saturday. A German friend of mine had a one-day layover in Barcelona before flying to Peru, and we discovered the city together. We were in the same language course in Perugia in September 2011, before leaving for our Erasmus semesters in Cagliari and Bologna. It was really nice to catch up, naturalmente in Italiano. After a wonderful lunch at Woki, we decided to go see la Sagrada Família. I still hadn't seen it, and I was positively surprised. On our way there, we also saw Casa Battló - I had never seen it, and I work on the same street...

Casa Battló

La Sagrada Família. I was so excited that I forgot how to look human.

After la Sagrada Familia we walked back to the city center, to la Rambla, and went to this wonderful market called la Boquería. I had never been there either. Soooo many wonderful things. <3

Then we walked down la Rambla to the harbor, and had a (fricking expensive) beer there. It was a truly wonderful afternoon. :)

After goodbyes I went to Urquinaona to have a late (for anyone else than people here) dinner with Gerard, the Esperantist I met on my first evening here. We went to this little place called Buenas Migas, and it was full of different kinds of focaccia and cakes and whatnot. I had a focaccia with ham, cheese, and mushrooms, and afterwards some cake with mascarpone, ricotta, and raspberry jam. So fricking good.

Turned out that the waiter/barista/worker was from Rome! I switched into Italian right away, and he complimented it. :) We chatted a bit, and he thought that me and Gerard were speaking in Finnish, when it was actually Esperanto.

I wanted to buy some focaccia home, so I got a piece with cream cheese and salmon. It was almost closing time, and I noticed that the barista put 2 pieces into the bag instead of one! I had to taste a bit when I got home, and it was heavenly. 

Om. Nom. Nom. I know where I'll be going for lunch next week.