Our last day in Barcelona started out slow but of course we couldn't leave the city without one last adventure...
Bryan, Jess and I explored the last bit of Barcelona we hadn't seen yet. Our first stop was La Mercat de Boqueria. It is an awesome open market full of fresh food. Tons of vegetables, and fruit, and any kind of seafood you could ever imagine along with any kind of meat/animals parts. I couldn't stay at the meat counters too long. It was a little too much. We walked around there for awhile and just enjoyed taking pictures and taking in the whole experience. The ladies cleaning and cutting the fish were the most impressive. It was very interesting. We got a cup of fresh fruit juice for one euro which was delicious. 100% fruit juice, freshly squeezed.
Our next stop was another market though I was hoping it was more like a flea market but it was just like Mercat de Boqueria. But on our way from one market to the other we witnessed a very strange protest in the street. It looked like a large group of students, probably our age and we had no idea what they were protesting but it was interesting to see. After realizing the second market was the same as the first we headed to our next destination.
We ran into the Arc de Triomphe of Barcelona. Much like the one in Paris. From there we walked to the Parc de Ciutadella. At this point it had started to rain and wasn't the most pleasant weather to be walking around in. We still went to the park, walked around a took pictures. There was a nice fountain/dragon pond. Near the pond were these teenagers doing some sort of interpretive dance with drums. It was quite strange. We found this huge elephant/mammoth that we took pictures on and by this point we were getting cold, and were wet and tired.
We headed home to dry off a bit and then went to Starbucks to relax and warm up. It was a nice relaxing afternoon. Jess and Bryan went back to the market and got fresh tuna with some veggies and we made dinner at home. The tuna was great and it was a nice final dinner in our cute apartment in Barcelona.
Ben had found a travelers bar that afternoon and we thought there was trivia there that night so we headed over there for a drink or two after dinner. We didn't stay long because we had a early morning and trivia was at the other location of the bar. And thats where the adventure began.
Ben got pick-pocketed in an alleyway right outside of the bar. A bunch of guys gathered around him and were just bugging him and stole his wallet. After we realized what had happened it was too late. There just happened to be an undercover cop at a nearby bar and the host of the bar and him tried to help us some. With my Spanish and the host's English we tried to figure out to do. We partially filed a police report but honestly we knew nothing was going to happen, especially since we were leaving for Mallorca that morning at 7 am. We ended up heading to the US Embassy at midnight to see if they could help us at all. Nope, the all night guards speak zero English and were no help at all. It was quite an adventure getting to the Embassy as well. We ended up making it home around 2:30am to get up at 5 am to make it to the airport in time to catch our flight to Mallorca... Goodness what a way to finish off our time in Barcelona...
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