Monday, 30 December 2024

UK/Spain 2024 Part 13: London to Barcelona

Hello friends, happy holidays or happy regular days, depending on what you feel about this time of year. I'll post some Christmas foods that I ate this year at some point, but for now, on with the trip.

I woke up early enough the morning we were leaving London to fly to Barcelona for one last quick trip to Cream Dream for another Strawberry Tart. Lego Stede asked me to get it for Lego Ed, who famously loves sweet things! Did you know that Ed and Stede invented love? You do now!

Ed and Stede and Pastry


I raided the breakfast bar in the British Airways lounge for the vegan options, and ended up with toast, beans, mushrooms, hashbrowns, brown sauce, and fruit. I got a little thing of marmite for my toast and why is it so runny?? Vegemite forever! It was cute that they had little vegan margarine packets! I also had some sort of many berried juice.

BA Food


BA Food


I was also given a vegan meal on the plane! It was creamy mushrooms topped with puff pastry and vegetables. Also a quinoa salad and a little dessert pot. That white stuff in the salad and desert pot?? Yeah, that was pure coconut yoghurt so I ate around it in the salad and just ate the raspeberry off the dessert pot. Thankfully Lego Ed was willing to share his tart with me, which I had carefully packed to bring on the plane.

BA Food


We landed, got a taxi to our hotel, and settled in before my brother and his partner arrived. They live in a city just outside of Barcelona, and this was the first time any of our side of the family had visited! We were staying at a hotel right on the Plaça de Catalunya, and I took a walk with my brother and his partner across the plaza to a giant department store called El Corte Inglés Plaça de Catalunya. We went down to the basement, where they have the supermarket. And I got to peruse some of the Spanish vegan options.

El Corte Inglés Plaza de Catalunya


I had the hotel empty out my minibar so I could use it for snack storage, and I loaded up on some things to enjoy for breakfast and snacks during our stay. I got some lovely flavoured yoghurts (forever jealous of the yoghurt game over in the UK/Europe), some beautiful pink strawberries, kombucha (orange and cinnamon and red berry) and a selection of crackers, slices, and dips.

El Corte Inglés Plaza de Catalunya


El Corte Inglés Plaza de Catalunya


El Corte Inglés Plaza de Catalunya


El Corte Inglés Plaza de Catalunya


Afterwards we all went out with Mum for dinner to a place that was also a short walk from the hotel. There are loads of vegan options in Barcelona (in fact it was recently named the third most vegan-friendly city in the world), and I'd loaded up my Google Maps with lots of starred places. Vegesana Asia Veggie & Ramen was the closest to the hotel that was open, so that's where we went. (A note: tt shares it's premesis with another restaurant called One Ramen, which isn't vegan.) I ordered gyoza and the tofu hot pot, because I am nothing if not predictable when faced with vegan Chinese food. Gimme tofu!

Vegesana


Vegesana


After that we hung out for a bit in our hotel room before they went home and it was bedtime.

Cute Kitty Photo of the Post

Henry


One of the most exciting parts of going to Barcelona was getting to meet my beautiful handsome perfect nephew Henry! I'll tell you more about our first meeting in the next post, but for now I think you can all agree he's the bestest boy in the whole wide world!



2 comments:

  1. How do you already have 13 trip posts!!! I absolutely love your Lego Ed and Stede! I am so glad your trip included time with your brother. How fun to have him and his partner host you around the city. And Henry really is adorable 🥰 - Sri.

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  2. British Airways seems to have a lot of vegan options! That looks like a great meal on board a plane. I once had pasta with veggies and olives drowning in sweet chili sauce. It was really weird.

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