Nate and Kara join a 2.5-hour walking tour through Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, seeing Roman ruins from the first century and hearing about Civil War bombing in 1939. Later they eat pinchos at a local bar where food is priced by colored sticks, with items running $1 to $1.50.
Two and a half hours.
About 2,000 years of history.
16.9 meters.
1939.
Late first century.
It is currently 4:30pm which is much later than we normally start these vlogs. While we enjoyed so much Kayla and Barrett being with us here last week, it did not leave us much time to get work done.
We basically took our own vacation and had fun with them all week. So today we took the day to catch up on work all morning long until now.
We have exciting things planned. This afternoon, we enjoyed. Enjoyed our walking tour in Lisbon so much that we've decided to take another one here. But this time we're doing it on the first day so we can get to learn the city on the walking tour so we can better enjoy it the rest of the week.
We're in.
Apparently, we were supposed to make a reservation brick. Steve says it's good. It must be good.
We're going to see Roman ruins. We're going to see city center. We can see the cathedral of Barcelona, the cloister of the cathedral, Santa Maria del Mar Square, related to the Spanish Civil War. And lots of different stops.
Okay.
Talking here to cultures, legends, and traditions of Catalonia. Okay. Roughly, the Gothic Quarter has, like, about 2,000 years of history. Okay. Two and a half hours.
Tour's going well so far. I like our tour guide. He's getting a tip.
This is the highest point in the city. 16.9 meters.
How old are they?
When?
The late first century.
You're in their wedding photos.
Sorry.
Just give me one moment. I want to see if I find the guys. And then we're going to go inside the.
What are you doing, Kara?
Almost.
Cute.
There were two bombs that went off in this courtyard in the Spanish Civil War in 1939. And that's why this whole wall.
This is the old entrance to the old city that used to be this tiny little area that's now a huge walking street. This cathedral is very modern. It has a man taking a selfie at the top.
We're being told that here they put pooping people in their nativity scenes at Christmas time.
Apparently, they have a large wooden animal that they eat to get it to poop out its presents on Christmas. According to our tour guide, we can watch YouTube videos of this action.
So you got to do like this. Okay. I'm just going to make, like a.
A suit.
Like, like, now I'm gonna. I'm gonna do with the real one. So you do, like, basically this.
Another good walking tour. Our guy thought I looked a lot like Cristiano Ronaldo, like a lot of people on YouTube do. And apparently he does some celebration thing. I don't know. We don't watch football.
So we asked our guide where we should eat dinner tonight, and he gave us some options. We're gonna go try pintosh, which are apparently like tapas but a little different. They're like a piece of bread with chopp.
We're gonna go time out.
He said they were only a dollar, so I'm boring.
L o. D.
We made it.
It's good to me. I'm liking the looks of this place.
I am, too.
Is that an entire half of an avocado?
I think it is.
Some kind of fish. I don't know. Something fried with strawberries. Look at those tiny eggs.
This seems like a similar strategy to the sushi trains in Japan. All of the sticks tell you how much they cost. So these red sticks are $1.50 or of normal six. You just go through, get your sandwiches, save your sticks, and then you can't waste it.
Genius.
Can't go wrong with bacon and cheese.
Oh, gosh.
Nate made a little mess, Threw my.
Four sandwiches on the ground. Which one do you start with?
I don't know. I don't know how to eat them.
What is that?
I don't know.
This seems very difficult, but you can't.
Eat them all at the same time. I'm just kidding. You can eat one.
I think you just pull one off the toothpaste.
Done a really good job eating these so far.
Really good. Really? Garlic.
All right. What is this one?
I don't know, because this was the local one that we had to get. All I know is it has potatoes and eggs, and it was the biggest and looked like the best value for money.
Does it taste like potatoes and eggs?
I reminds me of, like, potato casserole they get on Thanksgiving.
I'm a fan of the pincho concept. It's kind of like the hundred mini sandwiches place that we ate at when we were in Sevilla. Except you only get one slice of.
Bread instead of two, and you get to see them all, and you just pick them yourself. I love being able to. To see the food that we.
That was cool. And I love getting to try, like, lots of different things instead of just getting, like, one heaping plate of one thing.
Gracious.
I need help.
Hard to do this with one hand.
No, no.
What do you tell people you do for a living? Oh, what do you do for a living? Booty dance above it all.
