It's warm!

Heavy rain yesterday around here but not quite. I did get wet though riding my bike to the mall and back. I was sweating like a hippo. In this outfit I felt like even the shorts are too much. Inside we have 29°C. Feels like being abroad.

Barcelona, el Born

I cannot imagine a troip to Spain without garlic shrimps:

Yes, it was a gourmet trip, breakfast at the hotel, noon coffee, afternoon tapas and dinner in the evening. 

A few years ago we hat an apartment in El Born, which is a part of the old town. We would have loved to stay there, but of course it was taken. You can figure out why by looking at some pictures here.

Here are the most innovative and delicious tapas in Born. The place is called Bubo and it's located next to the Santa Maria del Mar church, which by the way is being built in the famous novel Cathedral of the Sea. It's a beautiful church, we finally saw it from the inside, too.  

We had tomato mozzarella salad and caesar salad plus croquettes and a bikini, the toast which normally doesn't look so beautiful and taste just amazing. This was filled with mushroom paste which was seasoned with truffle oil. I once bought a bottle of it in Italy. It was awful so I threw it away. Now I believe that I just should have used it in teeny tiny drops.

Bubo also has an amazing bakery -beware of the images, they're just TOO delicious!

And then to Mercat de Santa Caterina:

Octopus:

I could live in a place where you can pick up the ingredients for a dinner like this...

So there's also a shop which sells olive oils etc (the bottles in the picture) but when we were heading there to do some shopping, they were closing doors for siesta. So we continued to Pl. de Olles and bought basil and provencal flavored oils as always and these delicious fruit pulp vinegars.

And a couple of outfits, of course: these tops are actually just two silk scarves.

Restaurant Noti in Barcelona

Heavenly food in Noti restaurant, the very best dinner ever!

Strawberry gaspacho for starters, then Thee duck and for dessert red berries with blueberry sherbet and sour cream. Hub had duck salad, tartar steak and creme brulé.

Dress from DVF. (Sorry about the poor quality of some photos. It was really dark in there.)

Barcelona museums

We've been to a lot of museums in Barcelona before but for some reason never in Museu Tèxtil i d’Indumentària. It wasn't located where it used to be, so we checked out another exhibition first. These are printed, I mean really, printed.  

And then the actual place of interest with dresses from the 16th to the 21st century, Dior, Paco Rabanne and Cristobal Balenciaga (himself) to mention a few:

And my greekish le sac. I definitely need another one, shorter.

I also had to buy a new pair of sandals, it clearly was a mistake to leave home with just one pair. The selection was boooooring, but I manged to make a really good and comfortable choice. 

Barcelona part 1

Going towards more shops and more restaurants! 

We picked the destination because there was one room available in our favourite hotel, Wilson. It's located in Eixample, a couple of kilometres walk from the Barri Gothic, old town. On the way one can browse practically all shops, except small indie ones. I also checked the high fashion boutiques, which were selling winter clothes in 39°C heat. Here something from Chanel and Jimmy Choo.

Wilson's breakfast buffet (yes, there's also wine):

Here we are on the way to stroll around the city and in the second picture to dine at 4Gats, where our culinary week started. Hub had his first steak and I had rabbit and we did eat some starters as well. The pictures ain't good enough to be published but the food was excellent, even though the place is one of the biggest tourist attractions. It was established in the 19th century and some guy named Pablo Picasso was one of the regular customers (oh yes, we've seen his exhibition ;P). I'm wearing a new sweater from Bershka.

And as promised, Chanel and Choo:

Hat model's own

I realized Thursday afternoon tha the weather is gorgeous and I'm indoors -well, on the balcony- on a computer or reading a book. So, better go out. And then come back in for the cycling helmet instead of this hat.

I went to see our godson who took me out for a brisk walk with her mom and little brother. Now my foot has been rubbed raw but it was inevitable anyway. My toenails need a cut and new polish. At the very moment the weather is terrible (=cold and rainy), so I might as well start right away.

PS. Notice my water cress at the right corner!

Colourless

As you can see, I can be very fashionably black and discoloured, too. 

This is my new beret I made for those bad hair days I don't want anyone to smile at me (which always happens with the yellow one).

Booooring

Meaning my outfits: these jeans every day and the hat. But that's what happened in the winter, too, jeans, jeans and jeans even though I tried... Tomorrow I have to wear at least another pair! 

No dress

For the SATC Premiere I wore jeans and my beloved Fendi's + The bag. Then I let my hair down and picked a paperbag for the sparkling wine. Cheers!