Another popular leisure activity in Barcelona is going out to a bar or cafe with friends. While it may sound like a common activity to do in every city, in Barcelona it is a lifestyle. One of my favorite places to sit and pass the day in a cafe with friends was the Rambla de Catalunya.
There are close to 600 restaurants in the surrounding area, and many of them are along La Rambla Cataluña. The shops and restaurants along the street are a mix of local places, and chains. You can see a Starbucks right next to a traditional local tapas restaurant, showing the impact tourism has on the area.
For me, living in Barcelona I walked down the Rambla Cataluña everyday to go to school. I found it to be very peaceful in the morning as you can see everyone else strolling to work, as opposed to New York where I live where people are running to work and meetings with coffee and breakfast in their hand as they go. On my walk home in the mid afternoon the street also had a quiet pace, even though it is located right downtown in the center of the city. Around 2 p.m. you can find locals and tourists sitting down for lunch, having beer and having a smok, as if the work day has stopped.
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