That's A Wrap, Barcelona-style

Another great day of production, on Catalunya Independence Day. The city is sunny and quiet, as all have gone out to enjoy the holiday with their grandmothers. After shooting home interiors and up at the big castle--Mont Jouic (sp?)--we made our way to La Bodegueta del Poble Sec, a bustley little old place on carrer de blai, a few blocks up from the Paral-el, and we enjoyed a proper, 3-hour long Catalonian wrap lunch. Wonderful foods—grilled vegetables, marinated olives and eggplant, lots of different sausages, tomato-infused breads, bistecs and pork and LOTS of wine. Wine which we consumed from a porro, making for competative, therefore plentiful, consumption. It just felt like the tastiest way to celebrate the holiday and a job well done. Got back to our room and crashed, we are told, in true Catalonian fashion, sleeping all through the night. This morning, Wednesday, our last morning here, we are again greeted with bright sun, giving us what we needed to make one last pass around town to capture images of Barcelona’s most iconic structures. Oh and also giving Mark his first chance to see the Mediterranean!

Huge thanks to Marc, Nuria, Esther, Dustin, Piao and The Bad News Bears for showing us this wonderful city—we can’t wait to come back! But now it’s time to watch Bobbi do her McGyver impersonation, attempting to set-up her iPhone for hands-free viewing on the plane’s tray table as we wing on to Germany and the excitement of the IAA Frankfurt Auto Show.

Barcelona observations: many here ride scooters, and the drone of them makes the city sound like it is under constant attack by the world’s biggest mosquitos; trying to eat your way through the huge variety of the region’s cured meats is the tastiest impossibility one can encounter; until you understand the local spelling of “tapas”, you’ll think there are record stores in almost every restaurant; La Rambla has the largest concentration per capita of statue people in the world (of all materials—copper, bronze, AND marble….and they seem to peacefully coexist quite nicely!)