Today I set out to ride the Metro to Placa de Catalunya but
once again as soon as I got outside with the beautiful clear blue sky and the
temperature right around 85 degrees I just couldn’t make myself go underground
to the Metro so I decided to walk instead.
I haven’t made it onto the Metro yet even though I’ve intended to
several times, it’s just too easy to walk.
I have great memories of Palca de Catalunya form my one and only
previous trip here in 1994. That was the
year of my first retirement from Pacific Bell and I treated myself to an
extended vacation throughout Europe.
Spain wasn’t actually on the agenda for that trip but we were in France
and still had one more round trip train ride left on our Euro Pass so we hopped
down to Spain!! I was awed then and I’m
awed now. However, I think Barcelona has
changed a lot since that first visit or maybe it is me who has done the
changing……..not sure.
The Plaza was easy to find and as beautiful as I remember
but not nearly as big. It’s funny how
that works! I was a bit surprised to
find that someone had been so concerned about one of the statues exposing her
breast that they had sacrificed their tee shirt to cover her. She’s a good sized girl so I was kind of
baffled about how they actually got it on her but somehow they surely did.
There is also now a lot of night clubs in the area
surrounding the plaza. I don’t remember
these either but the truth is I’m probably more likely to go clubbing now than
I was then!! I was fascinated by many of
the signs outside of these night clubs advertising their various forms of
entertainment. I especially noticed the
one above. None of these acts are known
to me but I’m thinking Monday and Wednesday are looking the most interesting,
what do you think?
Part of my purpose for wanting to go this area of town today
was to try and find some department stores and I had read that this was where
they were located. I was still looking
for a few things I needed for the apartment.
I found a couple of home stores and did find a few of the items I needed
so that was nice. But wow, things are
really expensive here!! One pillow case
for a twin bed was $15 Euro and pillows were $49 Euro for two. I usually get mine at Marshall’s for $9.99
and they’re the top of the line pillows!! No wonder these guys are always protesting!
So you American’s are probably not paying much attention to
the European Soccer Championships that are being played here but last night’s
game was very exciting. Yes I did use soccer
and exciting in the same sentence! Spain
and Italy will play for the championship on Sunday night and I expect the top
to come off of this place for that game.
If you get a chance give it a look.
Italy has this incredible scoring machine by the name of Mario
Balotelli. He has this amazing body
which I have a hard time not staring at but at the same time I also think he
might be possessed. Maybe the Fifty
Shades of Gray books are getting to me after all!!
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