Barcelona Spain is a very, very diverse city. It has lots to offer in the ways of beauty and sight-seeing. There is so much to see and after a week I still felt as though I didn't see everything. It was only on the last day that I got to visit the ocean and even then only got to wade in. So I still count it as taking part in the Mediterranean.
During our time there we happens to be there when the seasons were changing for the fashion world. Almost every store has a 50% off sale in order to get rid of the stuff that is "so last season". In most cases literally everything in the story is 50% off. Even with that much marked off it usually made it normal American price. I managed to get a couple shirts that were a little less then the USA could price them. Still it was 50% off so you had to take advantage of it.
While there I was able to eat some Spanish cuisine. We had the national dish which is called paella and is basically rice and shrimp. It was pretty good even though I don't really like seafood. We were at a restaurant near the beach when we had the paella. We also got to try something I didn't catch the name of but it was squid or octopus ink on rice with the meat mixed in. As disgusting as this sounds it was actually pretty tasty although if you got the ink on you it stayed there and stained badly. (for once I didn't get anything on me while I ate)
One day while walking through the city we found a local group of musicians who played near this cathedral-like place and enjoyed sitting there listening watching the people pass by.
The band was very good. Their were 3 guys who played the steel drums and a clarinet. The clarinetist could have easily been the Spanish version of Kenny G. One of our guys bought their album and that night we listened to it as we were falling asleep. Sadly they only had about 5 or so songs so when we saw them again we had heard all their stuff multiple times.
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