chase the light

I was happy to be leaving London today to hopefully recover from this sickness with some warmth. A few days in Barcelona should cure my ills. I arrived around 6:00pm and Alex was there at the airport. So good to see him and we headed up to the city for some xurros and hot xocolate. On the ride in I even got to teach Alex about MontJuic. Even though he lives in the city he didn’t know where the name came from. Mountain of Jews! There’s a Jewish cemetery there. Cool, I know something! It’s way handy to cruise around the city with someone who lives there. Where to park, which streets to turn on, where the killer hot xocolate is, etc. After we grabbed some xurros and xocolate in the Barrio Gotic [VIDEO LINK] area we headed up Las Ramblas to Placa De Catalunya. Some guy was fast asleep on a car while the city went on around him. It’s always fun to revisit a city you’ve been to before because you’re much more comfortable. No more figuring out the subway system, deciphering the accents, or learning restaurant eccentricities. Alex did a little shopping at a store he likes and then we headed off to his house in Mira-sol. We stopped at a little roadside setup where some guys were selling these little roasted nut kinda things. Alex picked up a newspaper full of them a brought them to the house. Maria showed up a few minutes behind us and had bought some of them too! Can’t quite remember what they were called, but they tasted a bit like potatos. Alex? Help me out with the name? It was good to hang out and chat about things like no time had passed. We even watched “Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles” late into the night. We laughed at all the silly L.A. moments in it. Probably more than we should have for such a horrid film.