Set the Controls for el Corazón del Sol (part 3)

After a certain amount of hunting, we located our apartment in a tiny one-way street in the extremely cool area of Barceloneta. The streets are so narrow that we had to park in an underground carpark nearby, which ended up costing us more than hiring the car did! Here's the view from our 3rd-floor balcony:


We felt like authentic Barcelonans Barcelonians Catalonians as we made our way through the narrow streets to the Metro station where we met our dinner dates, Jo and Jase, a couple of buddies from our Agilent days, who are now making their way around the Med on their sailboat. Wow there's a tough gig! We were starving, having not really eaten anything significant since breakfast, so we pulled into the first restaurant we found, and tucked into tons of the good local stuff - seafood, paella, wine and of course, mucha cerveza! Here we are holding the free Sangria cocktails Jo managed to negotiate for us:


We kicked on to a local bar for more wine and beer and stumbled home at about 1am. Viva España!