We headed out for dinner at 6pm but not everything was open, since it was still considered early. We picked a restaurant near the main square called Casa del Polto (something to do with octopuses). We tried cuttlefish with garlic sauce, a small piece of potato tortilla (better than yesterday’s, €3.10), paella (still without the crunchy bit at the bottom, but still tasted good, €11), boiled pork knuckle with some sort of leafy veggie topped with paprika (€14), Galician soup with beans (a bit salty, mum and A2...

At 6:30pm, those going for the Spanish buffet and Flamenco excursion began the walk to the hall. The place was called Conduras. At the hotel on the reception desk, the buffet + flamenco was €68. We paid €70, but we got reserved seating at the front. Some of the food included: vegetarian tortilla (brussel sprouts and carrot), potato tortilla (didn’t taste like much), big pieces of fish and mussels in a tomato sauce, mushrooms with herbs, boiled veggies, stewed veal, rabbit in tomato based sauce, squid, mussels, big...

Instead of eating at the food market we had lunch just down the road at Euslar. I got a seafood paella (€14.50) and mum got a mixed paella with seafood and two pieces of chicken and a tapas of beef, carrots and potato, sort of like a stew (€9, today’s special). Our paella were the same size so mum’s was more worth it. The tapas came in a clay bowl like the one holding our crèma Catalana dessert last night, and the paella was in the pan. The...

Our group tour of Barcelona finished just before 12pm and my family and I walked to the food market on Las Ramblas. There was so much fresh fruit, spices, meat and seafood. Most of the seafood was fresh; the prawns and lobsters were still moving. Some people were selling hot food in the markets, but we didn’t eat there. I did see one place selling eggplant stuffed with rice, wraps with rice in them and paella, but it was an organic food place so it was probably expensive...

Dinner tonight was inside our hotel’s restaurant (the hotel was Rivoli Ramblas, on Las Ramblas, which is one of the major roads in Barcelona). Ramblas is the Arabic word for sand. Spanish people apparently eat a late dinner so the earliest the restaurant opened was 8:30. Entrée: Salad with corn kernels, pickled and grated carrots, huge slices of tomato with an olive oil and mustard seed dressing Mains: Grilled salmon on fried, sliced potatoes and a few bits of fried tomato Dessert: Crèma Catalana, which is like crème brulee (the custard...

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