TRAVEL DIARY: BARCELONA

Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city, with activities that really allow you to see both it's old and new faces. Most notably, the food in Barcelona is to die for. They take so much pride in their restaurant culture, and it shows. The restaurants never seems to be catering to tourists or basics, so we never really felt like we wandered into a tourist trap--something that can happen more often than not in large European cities like Rome, for example. Bourdain has said that Spain has surpassed Italy and France in the food scene, and I may have to agree (despite my father being Italian and French being my favorite cuisine).

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