España con mis amigos

Friends from home Lisa and Josh had decided to come over for a visit to me and a bit of a trip around Europe and since it was a long weekend we decided to fly across the pond to Barcelona for the weekend. We flew out on Good Friday and arrived in the evening to a pumping Barcelona. After a quick check in we went straight out to complete our only mission for the day – get some tapas and drink some sangria. We went for a wander down the Las Ramblas (where our hotel was conveniently located) before heading out to the harbour to a waterside restaurant and had tapas. Luckily for us it was a restaurant with pictures on the menu so all we had to do was point and yes ‘this this and this’. Me and Josh had spent the whole plane ride telling Lisa just how good Patatas Bravas were. For those who haven’t been lucky enough to taste this delicious dish – its basically potato wedges with chilli aioli but for some reason they just take a thousand times better in Spain. They also served us our first (of many) jugs of sangria which was my first since my sangria overdose at Pamplona last year. The first one took a while to get down but after that I was back on the wagon.

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