We woke up on Saturday morning to the predicted rain and storms. The thunder was like no other - so loud and long! Had a quiet day until we ventured out to meet our friends Simon and Adela Dolan. Simon is the Professor at the ESADE business school where Peter spent two months study leave in 2009. As is the Catalan custom, we met at their place (in Gracia) at 9.00 pm for a pre dinner drink before going onto dinner at 10.15 pm.
Simon and Adela took us to a restaurant called
Cuines Santa Caterina which is located in the Santa Caterina's market in the middle of Barcelona - Google has some good photos as I forgot to take any - https://www.google.com.au/#q=cuines+barcelona+santa+caterina They don't take reservations so by the time we sat down after a 10 minute wait, it was getting onto 11pm.
We had an assortment of dishes including grilled asparagus with romesco sauce, wild rice & vegetables with mustard sauce, grilled gambas (prawns) - all very fresh & delicious.
After dinner I was feeling a wee bit tired but Adela, party animal that she is, suggested we go to a drink at the oldest Brazilian
bar in Barcelona. We had Caipirinha (well I had one sip) which is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça an alcohol distilled in Brazel. By the time we got to bed it was 2.15 am and we were due to be collected by Albert & Diana at 8.30 am for our Sunday in the mountains. They kindly agreed to make it 9.30!
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