A little experiment. Please tell me:

• Bar / restaurant / hotel name
• Street address, including number
• Price (if there are different prices for bar/table/terrace, please specify)
• Any other comments

Responses here for as many establishments as you want. Anons welcome, as well as the odd submission from outside Barcelona. I’ll post the results in a pretty and informative format.

But not in Pedralbes:

If only shots were that cheap at my local.

All but one, now living in a back garden in c/ Sors, Barcelona.

“The Mahávansa and the Rájaratnákari state, that the king Walakanabhaya, or according to the latter work, Deveny Paetissa, caused the temple of a heathen named Girrie (doubtless Giri) to be destroyed, and caused to be constructed upon its site twelve temples consecrated to Sákya, which communicated with each other; and in the midst of which was erected an immense vihara.” (The pilgrimage of Fa Hian. I’ve been meaning to post something for … ooh … years)

This example of hostelries unable to spell their own name is rather interesting because of the two signs Bar Morrisson is clearly older than Bar Morryssom. Does this mark a decline in Spanish literacy–they used to be able to spell it–or are they merely trying to please various orthographical markets? (Background: Spanish speakers find it difficult in various contexts to distinguish the Anglo-American /n/ from /m/, hence Edinburgh -> Edimburgo, Birmingham -> Birninghan etc etc)

It is slightly strange that this should surprise anyone, since Romance languages are notorious for their variation in the attribution of gender to nouns (Latin neuter -> almost universally Romance masculine, but you then get swaps, and doubling ups, and all kinds of mayhem in the various modern languages/dialects). One wonders whether the regional background of all these “native-speakers” was considered, whatever the French state’s famous lack of interest in such variation.

I was wondering where it (and another landmark which I will post here as soon as I remember which it was) had gone to. Stefan Geens has the low-down, as usual. The ICC is on the mountain, so it’s not like they can have been unaware of it. Does this have something to do with Spanish army nerves re various minor assaults by separatists on the castle, which is still being used by the former? Or were the faithful at the Tarik Ben Ziyad mosque down below planning a spectacular coup?

Does anyone happen to know where murderers were done away with at that stage? Some kind of reference would be most helpful.