Monday, 15 July 2013

Cooking my way to friendship

In my new hostel Be Marr I met a bunch of really cool people. One of whom was a 79 year old man called Tio from Bern, Switzerland.

We both needed to post letters so we went to the post box and then on to the supermarket. He offered to buy all of the groceries in exchange for me cooking so I got my Jamie Oliver on!

We had rosemary seasoned turkey steaks with potato, asparagus and fried tomatoes. I clearly did a good job as we followed a similar arrangement for the next two days!

During the next few days I went on a walking tour and bicycle tour on consecutive days and a big run up the side of the hill fort and along to the olympic stadium. i have however flopped the last two evenings after four days of no more than 4hours per night and copious amounts of absinthe.

Barcelona is a hive of activity and just wondering around the city has lead me to a samba music festival, which was awesome, and an Indian national pride event which included market stalls and groups dancing on a giant stage.

On my last afternoon I met up with my friend David, who I had met in Sorrento, for a nice glass of juice and caught up on all of each others travel stories since we last met. 

Unfortunately on my last night in Barcelona the cookery course I wanted to do was fully booked. Even worse news was it was fully booked with some of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen. Damn! I should have bought a ticket!

But it was ok as I came back for the 8 o'clock class and this meant I could fully focus on the cooking and how sangria is made rather than on the harem of hotties!



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