Visit from Home: Barcelona, Tarragona and Cos Blanc

At the end of January my friend Lauren came to visit me. We had a lovely but very busy weekend!

On Friday we went to Barcelona and managed to see nearly everything we wanted to. The highlight of the day was definitely the Sagrada Familia! We had an audioguide, but I was so busy taking pictures that I only listened to a couple of the info points, although I did learn that the windows are different colours on the different sides to maximise the morning or evening light! The light was simply stunning; photographer me couldn’t get enough!

After the Sagrada Familia, we had lunch in Five Guys (so Spanish, wow) and then headed up to Parc Güell as we also had tickets to visit there too! Luckily this meant that we could get the bus up the hill (which is very steep) and back down, for free! This was perfect as we had vastly underestimated the temperature as it was a tropical 20 degrees, and had dressed with far too many layers!

When we came back down, we started to queue for churros but a young couple came up to us and gave us theirs that they hadn’t been able to finish, so we got free churros yay!

Then we went to the Gothic Quarter, just before the sun was setting (golden hour). The light on the cathedral was so pretty! There was a group of street performers who were amazing but unfortunately the police came and they had to stop 😦

After that we went for a drink in Plaça Reial, before walking up the Ramblas and Passeig de Gràcia to the train!

In the evening we had friends over for dinner at home and Valentina cooked mushroom and squash risotto (very tasty). In true Italian style, we didn’t sit down to eat dinner until 11:30pm and then we ended up staying up until 3am!

On Saturday we got up late, had some pastries from Granier and then went to the Cathedral and the Pretorio. We had lunch on the beach, making the most of the warm sunny weather whilst it lasted!

In the evening there was a winter festival in Salou, which was a carnival with floats throwing confetti! Basically it was just a giant confetti party which was fun until we realised we had managed to bring it all home with us! I’ll be finding confetti everywhere for weeks…!