Day 1 started late. We didn't even wake up until 2pm. After sitting around the apartment and talking for 3 hours, we finally got out of the door at 5pm. Spain just sucks you into this lifestyle of late nights and lazy mornings, it seems. Or, in our case, the complete absence of mornings. The next 12 hours of our day involved 1 hour spent in the Museo de Picasso, and 11 hours hunting for churro con chocolata.
Churros are these fried little things. They sell them here along with a cup of melted chocolate, either with or without whipped cream. Apparently, they're a popular thing to eat *before* dinner, which doesn't happen until 9:30pm. So we rolled down the street around 8pm looking for these things. The first place we went to sold out of them. We were like, okay, no problem, we're not quitters, let's hit place #2. And guess what??? They were sold out, too! Then, the third place actually had some left on a plate, on display in their window. But we had to stand in line to get seated, and literally watched the last plate of churros disappear before our eyes! That was incredible! I didn't even know about these little suckers until this trip. But Joel had talked them up so much, along with the lack of availability, just all added up to me wanting them even more! I don't understand these Spaniards! No one seemed to care that there's clearly more of a demand of these things, that there's more money to be made if they just fried up more of these things! I mean, this is just bad business practice! But I guess no one here cares too much about making more money... Long story short, we walk around the city searching for these damn things, and every store was out. We took a break and ate dinner. Then finally, we ended up at this place at almost 1am, and they had some. And thus ended the epic hunt for churros con chocolata.
Today, we didn't fool around. Comes 7:30pm, we got our butts back in town from the CosmoCiaxa and parked ourselves right into a shop that had refused us churros the previous day, and got ourselves some churros.
2 comments:
I was expecting a review of the churros once you finally found them, but you don't actually give an opinion on the 'churros con chocolata'! Were they worth the effort?
No. I'm over them. They're just okay ;) In fact, on my last day in Barcelona, I opted not to have them.
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