Barcelona
Tapas, Cervezas, and Flamenco!
Barcelona is really busy right now. Having a great time amongst the crowd. Its really hot during the day, but the nights are really nice. I found out there is a casino here, but couldn´t get a straight answer on what the Hold em tables looked like. I think he said it was a 10-20 limit and a 20-40 limit , where the buy-in for the 10-20 is like 250 euros or something. I havent got down there to play, even though I really wanted to.
Been busy every day checking out the sites of the city and some of the nightlife. Last night I saw a Flamenco show- guitarist, pianist, a guy on some kind of box drum thing, and a really crazy Flamenco singer guy with massive stage presence, as well as a Flamenco dancer. It was in a pretty small spot and I was right up front. really cool.
Tonight I saw a Master of Spanish guitar play a concert in a small cathedral. He played about 7 songs and was by far the best guitarist of any style I have ever seen in my life. he played so effortlessly and with so much passion in his music. And technically, the things the guy was doing were on an entire other level. After he played about 7 songs or so he took a break and a full orchestra came on to play some Mozart. After they played a few peices the guitarist came back out to solo for the orchestra. Amazing. It was a fairly small church, I was in the second row and the sound was amazing.
Tapas are what they have here in Barcelona for food. Its an assortment of all kinds of things that you get along with a beer, kind of snack food things, but on a much better Spanish scale. Fried peppers, prociuto & cheeses, calamari, etc. They have been a staple.
I´m staying right next to a famous place called Las Ramblas, which is a long walkway that leads from the city center to the sea. There are a few shops & things along the way, eateries, but mainly just a bunch of people hanging out and some really cool street performers like this guy – lamarioneta.com
There was a Rasta out there last night singing Bob Marley songs for change who was planning on walking from Cape town to Cairo in November. So there is all sorts of craziness going down here.
After this I´m heading south to try to catch a ferry into North Africa.
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