Apartment Rental Barcelona

GOCAR
Carrer Freixures 23
Barcelona near the Cathedral, Market Santa Catherina
Ph 93 269 1792
Web GOCAR

Using GPS satellite technology the Gocar tells you where to drive and take you of tour of Barcelona.
A Gocar seats 2 people and speaks 6 languages.
You need a driver license and you have to be 21 years old.

Price : 17,50 € per person

Hire an apartment downtown Barcelona during your stay.

Gravin
Carrer rera Palau 3
08003 Barcelona
93 268 46 28
Metro L4 Jaume I, L4 Barceloneta

Restaurants in Barcelona open around 8.30 pm or 9 pm .
If you are used to eat earlier, this italian restaurant opens its door around 7 pm…
Friendly restaurant with typical italian dishes.

ARTZ 21
Avenue marques de l’argentera 21
08003 Barcelona
+34 93 268 74 02
Web Artz 21

New Art gallery opened in June 2008 in front of the train station Francia and near the entrance of the Ciutadella Park
Cultural events …

November 2008 Fantasia Erotica Japonesa
Campaign SAVE THE GEISHA … with a geisha walking aroung downtown Barcelona
Big japonese event on Thursday December 4th. with japonese artists., cultural events, drink , a Manga Geisha …from 6 pm to 10 pm
Price 10 € for a drink + event

Live amoung the people of Barcelona during your stay, hire an apartment in Barcelona´s city center.

Gouthier
Plaza Sant Viçenc de Sarria.
Ph 93 205 99 69. Open from Tuesday to Saturday
from 1pm to 5 pm and from 7 pm to 12 pm
Very good fresh oyster in this restaurant located in a very cosy little square in the up town of Barcelona, Sarria.

They also serve on terrace , very nice square San Vicens

Good all wheat bread.

Take away too.

Near the Boqueria , restaurant “Au Port de la Lune” Oysters , french cheese and Bordeaux wines
Ptge de la virreira,2A
Ph/fax:93 270 38 19

Hire an apartment in the centre of Barcelona during your stay in Barcelona

La Botiferraria de Santa Maria
Carrer Santa Maria 4
08003 Barcelona
Ph : 93 319 91 23

On side of the wonderfull cathedral Santa Maria del Mar, you will see this nice butcher shop. Butchers wear a nice hat and uniforms.

Big choice of sausages, patés, fuets …

Very fresh, everything is done in the workshop on the back of the shop.

 During your stay in Barcelona, you can hire an apartment in the Born area

Flash-Flash Tortillería
C/ Granada del Penedès, 25 (Metro Diagonal)
near corner Travesseria de Gracia with Tusset
Open everyday from 1 pm to 1.30 am
Price from 15 euros.
Website : Flash Flash

Opened in the 70’s by a famous catalan photographer Leopoldo Pomés. You can understand why it is called … Flash Flash 

Choice of more than 80 tortillas (spanish omelettes)
Vegetable, fish, potatoes, trufles and cheese tortillas …sweet tortillas too …
Hamburger with french fries, soups, salads, simple dishes cooked with great care. Homemade desert.

Very trendy restaurant and not expensive .

A Flash Flash restaurant opened in 2008 in Madrid.

For your stay in Barcelona, you can hire an apartement downtown Barcelona with Cocoonbarcelona.

In winter time you can see small shops on street corners selling charcoal cooked sweet potatoes (spanish name is Boniatos) and chestnuts …

Taste those potatoes … it is very good.

They are used to bake the Panellets cookies for Halloween time ….(see post on this blog)

Enjoy living among the catalan people and hire an apartment in Barcelona.

I got the recipee from my neighbour Carmen .. 

  Ingredients:

• 1 small (4 to 5 ounces) sweet potato (Boniato in Spanish, you can buy it on the street in winter time in Barcelona), peeled and smashed
• 1 pound blanched or slivered almonds
• 1/2 lemon (grated zest only)
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinamon

Put all the ingredients together and let it stay one night in the fridge

• 1 large egg white, lightly beaten
• 1 to 1 1/2 cup pine nuts

Roll small balls of the dough with the egg and then with the pine nuts.
You can also add nuts, dried raisins, coconut, powder chocolate …

Cook 5 minutes in the oven.

Delicious recipee and easy to make ….

November 1, All Saints’ Day, that’s celebrated as a holiday. And, since celebrating All Saints’ Day really means spending the day at a graveside, it doesn’t have the same kind of resonance in the imagination. Halloween in Spain , they eat pannelets, chestnuts, drink sweet wine …

On the upside, there are treats. These are known as panellets: tiny cookies of varying shapes and flavours, traditionally accompanied by sweet wine and eaten on November 1, and really, throughout the fall. The basic recipe for panellets requires the preparation of a paste of ground almonds, sugar and mashed potato. The paste is subsequently flavoured with more almond, coconut, chocolate, coffee, pinenuts, orange or whatever else leaps to mind or hand and baked into tiny (usually circular) shapes.

The provenance of panellets is somewhat obscure. Some say that the cookies have origins in Spain’s Moorish past because of the use of almonds. Others relate them to ancient funereal or religious rites celebrated during this time of year. Luckily, no one’s going to test you on the subject before allowing you to eat them.

For your stay you can hire an apartment in the centre of Barcelona.

Palacio del Flamenco
carrer Balmes 139
Barcelona 08008
Ph : 932 187 237
Web Palacio del Flamenco

Beautiful and typical Flamenco show in Barcelona in the Palacio del Flamenco
Show + wine or show + gaudi dinner …

Discount with your voucher booking an apartment with  Cocoonbarcelona