Take a Walk on La Rambla

Nina and I walked and walked today. First we walked over to La Sagrada Familia and went to the gift shop, which was a little disappointing as it was very small. From here we walked along Avinguda de Diagonal and admired apartment buildings and their window shutters in different
colours and their balconies ranging from petite ones that can only hold plants, to bigger ones with a cafe table and much bigger ones with awnings. The balconies are either rectangular, cute semi-circles or topsy-wavy ones with fancy metal (a Gaudi building).

We finally broke down and went to a pharmacy and bought Imodium. I hope it works. After our visit to the pharmacy, we walked down Garcia street and saw where the rich shop. As we walked by Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, etc, Nina said to me "these people have bags of Gucci or Burberry and I have a bag of Imodium". It provided us with a good laugh. People were lined up outside of Gucci and the security guard only let a few people
in at a time. I hope the had good sales today. We went to shoe stores and looked at boots. The Spanish have amazing boots here. Even the little kids wear fantastic leather boots. I'm so envious of the kids and their footwear. I tried on a pair of boots at Camper but they didn't fit right. Nina tried on some shoes but they didn't fit well either.

We saw two different works by Gaudi today. The first one we saw is called the La Pedrera on Garcia street. The balconies are stunning with it's curves and different dimensions and fabulous metal work. The second one we saw on the same street is called Casa Batilo, which has blue, green, and mauve tiles and curvy window frames and balconies.

 
We walked down La Rambla and it was packed with people as was Garcia street due to the sales starting today. It's similar to Canada's Boxing Day sales. La Rambla has mimes and people dressed up in costumes (see one of the pictures) and some try to scare people as they go by, well these two sure did. Some kids were scared to walk by them.

We walked by ice cream place after ice cream place. I tried one called Torrones and it was lackluster. We also went to the Mercat Boqueria, which is a market selling fresh fish, meat, fruit, and candy and has small places to order a drink alongside your tapas.

Finally, we decided to walk back to our B&B and went to the store for water and coca light, and the bakery across the street for a sandwich. Now we are relaxing.