Bikes, Plaza del Centro

Beautiful weather for this time of year - sunny and temperatures reaching 20 degrees. These bikes and the blue basket caught my eye in the sun.

We met Philippa for dinner in El Borne area. The best laid plans and all that meant that we didn't have dinner in what became our Friday night Italian restaurant over the summer. The usual manager wasn't on and his replacement (might have been the owner) was rushing us to take our food order while we had hardly sat down and were enjoying a drink, telling us 'this is a pasta bar' and motioning that it was a fast through place. It had never felt like before. None of us liked his attitude and so took our drinks to the bar to finish and asked for the bill. We let him know why we were leaving. This was especially annoying as it wasn't even busy and we'd been there at least 10 times over the summer, introducing quite a few friends to it. Never mind. We walked along the road to the nearest square and had tapas in Joanet, a family Catalan place. Philippa stayed overnight, so the chat continued into the wee small hours.