Sunday people

Today is sunday. Weather forecast predicted rain and storms...but I woke up with a beautiful sunshine and decided to go for a walk. This is how shops look when they are closed: most of them have artistic shutters like these. 

Just outside my flat, Plaza del Pi Sunday market for natural food, well known for sales of honey and cheese. You can taste everything...and probably won't resist buying at least a jar of honey!!

...and cheese!

Plaza del Pi, where many artists expose their work. I stopped for a while chatting with Salvador Collell Juanola, a very nice person, to talk about the original style of his paintings he's been exposing in several european cities. He accepted to be portrayed in a photo and asked me to send it to him, which I did!

 Another artist of the square, reading his newspaper

And one more, reading his book!

Keeping on walking towards the main Cathedral square, another nice Sunday market crowded with hundreds of local people and tourists.

All kind of tasteful cheese....

Wine tasting....

Bellota ham tasting: this kind of ham is from free-range pigs that roam oak forests (called dehesas) along the border between Spain and Portugal

Well, I just wanted to take a picture of this man selling wines, but he asked his friend to take a pictures of him with me instead, wearing the same market apron (which he gave me as a souvenir afterwards!)

And....to end up my Sunday morning walk a little bit of very good music played in the streets of Barrio Gotico. Tiberio Eduardo and Adrian Roman playing flamenco guitar. I bought their CD after I heard them playing "Entre dos Aguas" by Paco de Lucia....very good interpreters!

The Spotshines, spanish group interpreting pop rock music...excellent!!! Right now I am listening to their CD while updating my blog!! There's plenty of very good street musicians performing in every corner of Barcelona....Well, this was an absolutely nice Sunday!!!