23 Saturday turned out to be a nicer day then the Weather Channel had predicted. We started in my neck of the woods at Pl. John F Kennedy and hiked up towards the tibidabo peak, following the same path Hannah and I took a few weeks prior. Once on the hillside, we turned on a little road, hit a trail and then found a road on the hill where many locals ride bikes and run. Our group was large today, including students in CIEE’s Business and Architecture programs with 57 people.
Our hike took us into the hills of Vallvidrera and was very cool. With views of the cloudy city below and peeks of Norman Foster’s communication tower above, the walk was very exciting. We talked to our guides about Spain and places to travel and also looked into some of the other CIEE provided trips which were in store for us in the upcoming weekends.
Our destination was Can Martí which overlooked Barcelona and the Med. The spot is well known for it’s famous calçotadas. An onion cooked over an open fire and charred to perfection, calçotadas were a yummy mess. We dawned our aprons and enjoyed wine and 8 courses of this massive meal, not including the calçotadas which we had multiple plates of.
Some of the meal’s highlights included the colçotadas themselves along with bread and the wine which you could either pour in a glass, or drink from a single container with a spout. Although practice makes perfect, the group went right in to drinking from the pitchers called a Porrón. Some of us tried perfecting the act of drinking with multiple porróns.
We ate our dessert and headed out for the FGC funicular and to the city of Barcelona.
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