Waking bright and early on the morning of the big four o - I was pleased that the hangover seemed minimal. A Berocca later we headed out for Mercator St Josep La Bouqueria en route to Sitges for a day at the beach.
We settled on Bar Boqueria for breakfast - drawn by the extensive selection of tortilla available. One spinach tortilla and café con leche later we were good to go.
Reaching Sitges priced traumatic, primarily due to unusually appalling map reading skills and the lack of helpful sigbage on the Metro. Heading for an interchange at Passeig de Graçia we ended up at Graçia itself and after an altercation with a scary lady Metro worker headed back to Plaça Catalunya to access the adjacent Renfe station,
Sitges was beautiful - we hit the beach after a cheeky gazpacho and lay there for the afternoon, before heading back to Barcelona around 6 for a quick siesta and some olive oil crisps before the evening's activities.
Dinner was at Tapaç 24 - an amazing place by cgef Carles Abellan tgat has three queues - queue 1 is on the street, then queue 2 is on the stairs to the basement where the restaurant is based, then finally queue 3 is in the bar area. The food was amazing - as well as the usual tapas staples, we had one of the signature dishes - Bikini (toasted ham and cheese sandwich) with iberico ham, manchego cheese and truffle oil. We passed on the McFoie Burger for obvious reasons. For dessert we had chocolate ganache with pa (bread), olive oil and sea salt.
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