Barcelona Out-Takes, 1

Sidewalk plaques one sees all over the older parts
of town, commemorating older, historic businesses

Our favorite Barcelona store, El Corte Ingles, the English Tailor
(it's a long story), although we rarely get beyond the basement 
food hall; as a department store, comparable to the BHV, but not
the grandes magasins in Paris; the food hall is just a really, really, 
good hypermercado, with very competituve prices, although it
does have an impressive gourmet section

Some of the shellfish

Some of the fish

Of course it's the jambon that's most impressive

The really good stuff chained under lock and key and glass in the
gourmet store

Jambon morgue

Our Easter home-made dinner...veal piccata, pasta alfie, pan,
and a traditional mone

The mone; just a little cake thing they eat Monday after Easter

Mones in a store; they can be quite elaborate and pricey

At the Bouqeria, spiral fries, just like in Wellington; and Indonesia

Dipped strawberries on a stick

On Las Ramblas you can buy almost anything 
on a stick

Moving right along, part of the line to get into the Chanel store
(one of them) on Passeig de Gracia; is it cheaper here than there?

The Block of Discord's third and rarely noticed member, Dominech
i Montaner's Casa Leo Morera

A chain?

Incipient shoe street lamp

Haven't seen any Camino pilgrims here yet

Barcelona's a very artsy, literary place...