Sweet Home Barcelona blog

I’ve added the first couple of streets to our list of Barcelona streets.  These are: C/Caspe and C/Gerona.  I chose these to start with because they are the streets that we have lived in.

I just found this very well done Spanish language website Notes In Spanish. Run by Marina and Ben, it has a lot of useful sources and plenty of idioms to practise. They also have a link to a very useful grammar website from Bowdoin College in Maine, USA.

I’ve started a new page on where the street names of Barcelona come from.  It draws on the existing street name dictionary available on the Ayuntamiento’s web site.  Click on our blog page to see what’s there.

We went for dinner last night at Marc Blau in Roger De Lluria opposite the Ritz Hotel. The restaurant is basically non-smoking which is a plus in Barcelona, and the meal was of a reasonably good standard. I had a pasta starter (a bit too soft for me, but  seems to be “al dente español”), Isabel had terrina de anchoas; I then had a fillet steak “cooked in its own juice” with “hidden pureed potates” rolled up in jamon and with morcilla discs at either end. Isabel went for the arroz con bogavante which was good as well, but she has had better in L’Altra Llossa. For dessert we both went for an apple tart with honey ice cream. All washed down with a reasonable bottle of Albariño.  The meal was good without being exceptional, but not too sure if we would repeat it.  Price around 90 Euros for two of us.

We’ve finally got around to setting up a blog.  It’s not the first time that we’ve done this, but hopefully we’ll have a better stab at it this time.

I’ve created the first few (blank) pages for Food and Drink and for the Eixample district where we live.