My all time favorite snack and fresh juices

Hello friends,

Happy Monday to you all!!

Spain has been wonderful with so much culture and great foods! After having an amazing dinner on the water the next morning I enjoyed a Vega smoothie.

After a quick vega shake it was time to hit the streets again and see more of Barcelona.

Since my love for the market I wanted to go back to grab a few more smoothies They were soooo good I just had to have a few more!

But first we had to find something for Gary for breakfast. Luckily they had some amazing bakeries at the market was well.

Barcelona has some great looking pastries! I could stare at these pastries all day coming from a bakers stand point these are truly art to me. Ok maybe I am weird. I just love seeing what other countries and bakers created.

He got some chocolate covered pastry. It was huge!

It said is just alright, a little dry out.

Than it was time for more smoothies.

Gary got a banana, kiwi and coconut smoothie. Love the color!

I got a blackberry coconut smoothie. Both smoothies were delicious!!!! Again happy tummy. But my new love in Spain is these amazing snacks

Coconut chips. Well that is what they called them here.

These fresh pieces of coconut only cost me 1 euro. I was very impressed.

I snacked on these coconut chips all day. They were a perfect healthy snack! The texture and flavor were so unique. The coconut chips where thick pieces of fresh coconut and had a real hard crunch bite to them. The flavor was not too strong coconut either which I found interesting. I LOVED THEM! Gary enjoyed them as well. They were addicting Not sure how they made the coconut pieces so hard I assume they are from mature coconuts?!?!

Have you ever had coconut chips? Or anything similar?

We did some more walking around and sightseeing.

Barcelona has some truly unique architecture.

Plus checking out the Parc Guell! The park was truly an unique site to see. Though it rained a little while we were there and we forgot to bring our umbrella.

The park was huge. I recommend this stop for anyone in the area.

Be prepared to do a lot of walking and climbing

Though the park did over some breathe taking views of Barcelona.

After walking around the park sure did build up an appetite for us both. We did some research before leaving the hotel in the morning and found a cool vegetarian and juice restaurant that I wanted to check out for lunch.

The place was called Juicy Jones.

Juicy Jones was very colorful and lively vegetarian restaurant. They had a huge menu with so many delicious sounded food, juices, and smoothies. They also had some vegan options as well.

They had such a variety of options of juices to pick from I had a hard time picking one.

I ended up getting a fresh juice of beet, carrot, orange, lemon and ginger. I got the large size as well Pure bliss!!!!

Fresh juice = happy Lori!! I am easy to please sometime

Gary got a beer, classy!!

And he got a roasted veggie sandwich. He enjoyed it!

The other part of my lunch was their guacamole.

HEAVEN!!!!!!!!

Wow this guacamole was one of the best guacamole I have ever had, almost as good as my own guacamole

I give Juicy Jones two thumbs up. The staff was nice and food delicious. The service was a little slow though that happens a lot over in Europe restaurants, they really do not what to rush you A little different than in the States. I enjoy how they really leave you alone to enjoy your meal and company. It just takes some time getting used to!

We did not eat our lunch till 3pm and it was very large! Therefore both Gary and I were not feeling up for a large dinner. We decided to just a get a few drinks and maybe some tapas or something. Luckily there are plenty of tapas places to choose from

First place was called Tapa Tapa. We sat outside next to the heaters. It seemed to be a busy place so we thought it was going to be good.

The meal started off good, I got myself a glass of white wine.

Gary got himself some Guinness beer (one of his favorites).

My tapa was their grilled vegetables with olive oil and salt. They sure do like their olive oil and salt. The vegetables were WELL COATED (a little too much for me). They were alright.

Gary got the mussels and fries, he did not like them. Not very good quality of mussels, though ordering them at some tapas place was probably not the best decision either

He also got their guacamole. He said it was nothing like my lunch guacamole!

We ended leaving this tapas restaurant because the waiter was rude and the service was not good. Also the food was not worth it.

We headed back to out hotel and came across another little bar tapa restaurant. We thought why not give it a try.

We sat outside again. The service and waiters were much better here. Though neither place spoke any English but the waiter at this place was really nice!

Got ourselves one more round of drinks.

I got the vegetable tapa. Very similar to the other tapa restaurant. It was very small though the price was cheap. Therefore you get what you pay for right?

That is one thing that I have noticed in many of the restaurants here especially those in high foot traffic and high potential for tourist is that all the restaurants offer the same exact thing. Maybe with one or two things different but overall the same menu offerings. I was not a fan of that. Therefore you really have to go off the typical streets to find some authentic places which is not all a bad thing.

Gary got their chocolate cake. He liked it. After our tapa restaurant hopping experience we decided to call it a night. And I wanted some of my chocolate for my dessert

Another purchase I got a the health food store.

A little piece of heaven for me! I really liked this chocolate bar because it was really smooth and the perfect ‘chocolate’ texture. Perfect dessert in my opinion.

I am a few days behind on my traveling eats and great finds. I will keep posting all my great findings and interesting experiences soon. Thanks for being so patient with me.

Till next time,

Lori

The Twins

L&M