Barcelona for the hurried or afraid
Created | Updated Mar 2, 2002
Barcelona for the hurried or afraid - what to do if you have to spend three days in the city for a marketing conference
You won't have much success if you try to impose UK habits on your Catalonian hosts. Your team building hands-on rhythmic exploration breakout session will just get the manager angry because you've interrupted his siesta. Or. as you're bascially a group of 9 to 5 people you'll want to have a nice lunch in the middle of the day, for example, or go out to eat at 8 or 9 in the evening. In Barcelona, they just don't understand that. And when they do bring you food, puzzled expression and all*, it consists of small slices of bread coated in bloody-looking olive oil, or small slices of bread with salmon and fried onions, or just raw meat. Both formal meals you'll attend will be exactly the same, with red-blood bread, anchovies, salad, spinach balls, piella and seafood on a plate. The last day, though, they bring cheese and ham toasties, which are fantastic after this contrived deprivation. And the very best thing about Barcelona is the first cup of tea you have when you get home. It's a very nice city, especially the magic fountatain, but I don't like travelling much.
*the waiter, that is. Although some of the seafood looks pretty surprised as well.
You won't have much success if you try to impose UK habits on your Catalonian hosts. Your team building hands-on rhythmic exploration breakout session will just get the manager angry because you've interrupted his siesta. Or. as you're bascially a group of 9 to 5 people you'll want to have a nice lunch in the middle of the day, for example, or go out to eat at 8 or 9 in the evening. In Barcelona, they just don't understand that. And when they do bring you food, puzzled expression and all*, it consists of small slices of bread coated in bloody-looking olive oil, or small slices of bread with salmon and fried onions, or just raw meat. Both formal meals you'll attend will be exactly the same, with red-blood bread, anchovies, salad, spinach balls, piella and seafood on a plate. The last day, though, they bring cheese and ham toasties, which are fantastic after this contrived deprivation. And the very best thing about Barcelona is the first cup of tea you have when you get home. It's a very nice city, especially the magic fountatain, but I don't like travelling much.
*the waiter, that is. Although some of the seafood looks pretty surprised as well.
