We started like any other city tour, with the Passeig de Gràcia and Gaudí's appartment buildings Casa Batlló and Casa Milà / Pedrera, and then continued to the Sagrada Familia church. There the first surprise of the tour was awaiting us: they were celebrating the festival of the district and several teams of castellers, the catalan human towers, were performing. I told them about this special tradition and how like they had been to see it, as it isn't hard to hit one of these shows. Here is a picture:
Next, we continued to the Old Town, where we had an encounter with a group of pickpockets. Fortunately enough, I immediately realized those Romanian Gypsy girls had just stopped behind our group and we moved away from them, but we could still see the pick-pockets operating, trying to steal from a young couple of tourists that we alerted, and then finally managing to steal a wallet from another lady...
I hate so much to see this kind of things, it really disturbs me. But I know the only way we can fight them is making visitors aware of them, and that's why I'm writing that in my post: so you know it happens. Please don't consider your back pocket a safe place for your wallet and keep always your bag IN FRONT of you and not in your back. Make things difficult for pick-pockets and have a safe holyday!
I was so angry and could see the gypsies had spotted us telling other people, so I decided to move on. We left the Cathedral and continued to the charming squares of the Gothic Quarter. I showed them the Plaça del Rei, and the Roman Temple and when we got to Plaça Sant Jaume... there was a demostration going on! Oh My... But well, they were moving away from the square so I finally managed to tell them about the site and since it was the end of the tour I recomended them a great tapas place for lunch.
That had been an unusual tour!
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