Saturday, August 20, 2016

Day 13: Barcelona - La Rambla, Barceloneta beach, Tapas on Poble Sec and Flamenco show

Our last day in Barcelona, we went to La Rambla, Barceloneta beach, Poble Sec neighborhood for tapas and finally for a traditional Flamenco show in La Rambla.

Lovely streetlamp walking towards La Rambla
Flamenco dancers at Tarantos, Barcelona
We started off in La Rambla and visited the tourist office and bought tickets for a flamenco show the same night. Had lunch after that and came home for a short siesta. We decided to visit the beach (Barceloneta) again one last time, and then went to Poble Sec neighborhood for some local food - tapas. We took the metro to Poble Sec and walked down the street to find a table for four. All the restaurants has tables out on the street and the place was packed with people. We finally found a table and had a variety of tapas, that you bring from the restaurant inside and they charge you per tapa. Each tapa is 1 or 1.5 Euro.

We took a taxi back to La Rambla, as it was close to the showtime and reached Tarantos, where the show was. There was a shorter line for people with tickets, and it was first come, first serve seating.
It was a traditional Flamenco show with musicians and singers for part of the show and two Flamenco dancers (male and female) for performances in between the singing.

Barcelona was a nice city, with Gaudi's architecture, modern amenities added for the Olympics a few years before, wonderful cuisine and lovely beach.

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