j'ai mal aux cheveux

The good thing with Barcelona is that friends feel free to come for the week-end. It is a very attractive city and for a short time you can enjoy it. Again this week-end friends from UK are there. Now they are at the beach and I'll join them in a while. Meantime I still have to recover from last night. We met at the hotel I book everytime : chic and basic www.chicandbasic.com . It is very good value, very nice design, good service and next to it the white bar to have breakfast (though I would not recommend for dinner, quality is not what it was when it opened, sadly). Then we booked the dinner table for 10.00 p.m and we went to Barceloneta at de mercat www.husarestauracion.com , plaça de la font . It is a very good fish and sea food restaurant which is rare for a front sea city. Tapas and meat are more successful and we were very happy there, the food was excellent and fresh. It is worth the walk and the price and you can book the table outside. Then quick cocktail at the HOTEL 54 BARCELONETA barcelona, downstairs at the Suite Royale. The terrasse is very nice as well but the city is still windy so no fun with the ladies and their very light dress. Maybe too early for a saturday night or maybe too much activity at the port because of the sailors exhibiting their "treasures" (you can watch your best fantasies passing by in the city these days) so back to el borne. We like very much coktails at Gimlet, Rec, 24 close to Passeig del Born so easy to find. I noticed the other day that it is recommended by Wallpaper, which is a good reference. Very crowdy, noisy and smoky but we can stay there for hours. A bit of air was needed so back to Cactus of course, www.cactusbar.cat and finished at Salvation because it's the disco nearby where we can have fun (2 dance floors, one with spanish pop and the other one techno) www.matineegroup.com . But I guess we started to be slowly drunk and the moves were not so glamourous nor coordinated on the dance floor so was better to go back home.