Spain Trip: La Rambla, Granja Viader, and Placa de Catalunya

After spending a day full of walking around the city, we decided to spend the night around the hotel. Since our hotel located near Placa de Catalunya, so we went sightseeing La Rambla at night. La Rambla that night was packed with people.

La Rambla at night

Another view of La Rambla

Chrismas ornament on the street

Since we already had rice during the lunch, so we wanted something light for dinner. I always have an eye for dessert, so this time we're going to one of the famous place for Churros, named Granja Viader. This restaurant is established in 1870 and still crowded until now. We had to queue for a few minutes outside the restaurant until we got our seats.

Granja Viader banner

queue in front of Granja Viader

waiting to get our seats

We ordered churros, hot chocolate, flan, and milk. The churros itself taste really good, the original one is only covered with sugar. But since we also ordered hot chocolate, we could dip the churros to the chocolate. The flan taste like a light pudding with caramel sauce for me. To be honest, the chocolate is more like a cup of melted chocolate instead of milk chocolate that you usually find elsewhere. I love the taste of the foods that we ordered, but if I returned there, I will order more churros and not dip it in the hot chocolate, cause the dip made my stomach felt overwhelmed. This place is recommended for anyone who wants to taste the original churros from its original country, Spain.

Our order in Granja Viader (the churros was amazing)

You can buy milk and other food to be taken home as well

our little wefie in Granja :p 

After finishing our delicious desserts, we walked back to our hotel. Before then, we stop by at Placa de Catalunya. Basically Placa de Catalunya is a huge empty plaza, where people meet each othes or doing activities. There are some fountains at the plaza, and they gave us a show like Font Magica, but these ones in smaller size and less dramatic.

Placa de Catalunya

The fountains made the atmosphere felt beautiful

The fountains at Placa de Catalunya

Since we came there in Desember, so the Christmas ornaments were everywhere. One of them was covering the El Corte Ingles, one of the huge department store in Barcelona.

Christmas ornamen at El Corte Ingles

Finished with sightseeing, we went back to hotel and took some rest for the next day journey.



XOXO,
The Tourist