Trip to Spain: Barcelona Day 2

Arc di Triumph & Parc de le Citadella

The girls decided to sleep in this morning and I made my way to the Barcelona Zoo. I'll do a seperate post about the zoo, for those of you interested in that.

I got to see a bunch of other things along my way to and from the zoo. The Arc di Triumph and the Parc de le Ciutadella were both cool to see:

Chocolate Museum

One other thing I did was visit the Museum of Chocolate (http://www.pastisseria.com/en/PortadaMuseu). I found it pretty cool. It's not very big so you can easily explore a majority of the museum in an hour or so, and of course buy lots of delicious chocolate. One of the coolest things here are the various sculptures that have been done entirely in chocolate. I have a few pictures, but some aren't great becasue of the reflection of the glass enclosures:

Mount Juic and the Funicular

After the Chocolate Museum I quickly walked through the Bari Gothic to meet the girls for lunch. We had tapas at a little greek place...but you can find tapas places all over. We headed out to Mount Juic via the funicular. The funicular is kind of a cable car, you can take one of the metro lines there then take the funicular up the side of the mountain to Mount Juic. Mount Juic (or Mount of the Jews) is kind of a touristy spot with a castle at the top, the Castell de Mountjuic. There are plenty of great views and photo opportunities here. The olympic village is nearby as well.

Bari Gothic

After some sightseing we headed to the Bari Gothic. The Bari Gothic is an old area of Barcelona known for it's gothic architecture. Plenty of sights to see, including the Barcelona Cathedral )cathedral La Seu) which we stopped to see (the geese were there to warn against intruders) plus shops and museums.

We finished up the day with dinner at a restaurant called L'Olive (www.re-olive.com) which was good but not great. They had an appetizer of fried artichokes which sounded great so we got some, turns out most of their main dished come with this as a side, so skip them as an appetizer (but they are good). I had a beef filet cooked to pefection but a little salty, Denise had a really good lamb dish and Reen had duck with strawberry sauce that she liked but I found too sweet.