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What to do on a sunday afternoon in Barcelona?

This is one question I have been asking myself a few times since I have been here. Well, there are many activities to do here in Barcelona. However I am always looking for one that would entice my curiosity. And here we go!  Seen in my inbox: “Design, fashion, street market, boheme, gourmet street food, workshops, music and performances… all mixed in the coolest venue.”…I raise my eybrows, mmmh tell me more….”Palo Alto Market is a sophisticated and avantgarde street market…” Stop there, I am in! On my own or with people, I will go and check it out!

Before though, I will go to a social brunch with a bunch of ladies I don’t know but who seem pretty cool as they all want to meet up on Women’s day to celebrate ourselves being women. So I head. Brunch is great mainly because the group is fun and I overally had a good time although one of the girl’s bag got stolen and the bill was wrong…. Anyway, at some point during brunch, our host mentions an event that turned out to be the same market I wanted to go to so 4 of us decided to go and have a look.

The market is in Poblenou. For my part, not the most exciting part of the city and it looks all dead until we arrive in Carrer dels Pellaires and see a long queue. We line up, pay up and a nice food smell that was the one of pancetta grilling (sorry vegan/vegetarian friends) welcomes us. There is quite a crowd over here.  The venue is amazing, the garden looks like a lost garden in the middle of the city. In the evening, with the lights it is even cooler. There is a nice atmosphere reigning, quite hipstery but not clicky.

The description on the invitation was correct: there is gourmet street food and I see all those famous food trucks I hear so much about in fashion and trendy magazines and was looking for. We are feeling hungry out of a sudden, all of us. So we decide to explore all the food stalls to get something to eat. Quite a choice to be honest. And we all pick something different. I got steak tartar with gin tonic jelly on top and it was yummy, small, but yummy. We sat in one of the gardens eating and listening to the DJ.

Once our tummies full, we continued to explore. This is a market indeed: we see antiques for sale, jewelleries, accessoires, design products such as clothes, shoes, wooden glasses…I would not buy everything but it is all interesting.  I got a coat over there. Made by Pitagora, a Barcelona brand that produces limited edition. I needed to refresh my wardrobe and I have been wanting to have an oversized, masculine and asymetrical coat for a while. We were walking and around a corner… bam! Wish fulfilled! The best thing of having no expectations is that you cannot go wrong. And when the experience in itself is great, it gets even better.  The market is amazing, our state of mind happy. Our party was all enthusiastic about discovering and having a good time. It makes a big difference and a wonderful day.

We kept on walking around and then we saw the jazz club. There is even a jazz club within the market! Cool…Good singer! I found out later on who the band was: Khaoula & Friends Trio. Khaoula had a powerful voice, loads of good energy, good songs, a killer style with her mini shorts and maxi coat and she can move her hips – if I might even say they don’t lie :). Very nice concert it was!

All in all, it was a great day and I had a great time!

Palo Alto Market link: http://paloaltomarket.com/es

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