Dá me um beijo!

Um... the city!... Right... that's exactly what I was taking the picture of...

Yep, this is the scene of that wonderful afternoon in Barcelona in the company of 3 very nice Brazilian young men, large quantity of beer and green olives! By the way, I TOTALLY won the olive pitt spitting contest!!

Oh, and they're names were... check this out: Joao, Joao and Dudu!
"Joao" pronounced- (jWAW!) -- the exclamation point is optional... but if you had been there you'd agree that in this case, its imperative.

Even though they continually tired to convince me of being over 21, (I checked their papers, supposedly they were.) I still do not believe them being a day over 18 (hey, AT LEAST, for my sake). Both Joaos had disorganized curly hair and Dudu had a buzz. What is it with Brazilian men!? (Ok, in this case YOUNG men.) They're just so HOT! Is it the smile? The eyes, the way they talk? Is it because they're so... ehem.. "friendly"? Can some one reveal the mystery?? Or will I have to go through life trying to figure it out!!?? (..now that actually sounds like a great idea, considering the "test group"...)

BEIJOS!!!

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The "Essential" Barcelona.

My bashing Barcelona was more of an attempt to see the annoying negative things about Europe and Spain, mostly because I absolutely love going to Europe and would not change any of its good or "bad" qualities... it just wouldn't be the same. (Thus... abort operations World Done a la Ale... I repeat... abort and withdraw... 1...2...3... is this thing on??..?)

Back to the really important matters, such as the "Essential" Barcelona. First and foremost the street to be is Passeig de Gracia where you will happily encounter all the houses of worship worth visiting... such as Chanel, Armani... and so on and so forth...


Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona, Spain

This is where the entire city comes after work for their evening stroll. Its great! There are bakeries, cafes, and in some of the side streets you'll find tapas bars (not to be confused with TOPLESS Bars).

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La Pedrera, on Passeig de Gracia

Barcelona's big thing is this whole Modernist movement and Gaudi's architecture is seen throughout the city. I'm not into history... (or another serious knowledge) so I did not get into the historical details, just stayed focused on shopping and people watching. Or maybe I should say STARING!? Honestly, what is it with Spaniards? They STARE. Other Europeans do it rather inconspicuously but in Spain its just so blatant its unbelievable. I kept checking to see if my fly was open or if my ear fell of and I didn't notice...but everything seemed in place and they were still staring!!! They stared as if I was a monkey in the zoo! Or... wait... I'd rather say: They stared LIKE MONKEYS in the Zoo! (Ok, that's a better expression.)

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This is Rambla de Catalunya which is exactly parallel to Passeig de Gracia where you will also find yourself at home among the shops!

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Sorry don't know wat this is called, but there is the Loewe store on the ground level!
And yes, we're still on Passeig de Gracia.

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Important Modernist Stuff...

I think this is such a hot building, all the aspiring photographers were lined up taking its picture with their tripods. Sexy photographers by the way. To bad no one lives there, its a museum, right Cadiz? I tried to zoom in as close as possible with my camera but still couldn't see any people changing in the windows so I'm assuming its a museum.

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Balconies

Here is my attempt at being a "sexy photographer". How am I doing? Hehe
I wasted 5 shopping minutes to walk all the way around the corner to get this side. Oh, and you're supposed to be noticing the wrought iron balconies.

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