Down, Dirty and Real: Christmas and Flamenco. Barcelona Part 2: Barri Gòtic

In Barcelona Part 1, I advised you to go to Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família. And, I hope you went to church like a good boy or girl. Now that that’s out of the way, here are some options to get yourself back on the sinning side again in Barri Gòtic… Continue reading “Down, Dirty and Real: Christmas and Flamenco. Barcelona Part 2: Barri Gòtic”

Roja! Xinesa! Barcelona! Part 1: Antoni Gaudí

Barcelonians aren’t afraid to speak their minds, to help you, or frankly, to get you out of their way (for efficiency’s sake, of course). They’ll poke fun at you if you’re flushed with wine. They’ll call you Chinese out in the street, when you’re actually Filipino-American. That happened more than a few times. Which is strange on many levels, one of them being that Spain colonized the Philippines for over three centuries and named the islands for their King. Eyebrow raise.

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