Mercat de la Boqueri

I think to get to the heart of any city, you should visit their local food market. Our apartment was a two minute walk from the biggest market in the city...La Boqueria, right on the main streets of Las Ramblas. The giant market is filled with sweets, ham, sausages, wine, seafood, fresh meat, cheese, fruits and countless fruit juice stores. For a special homemade dinner, we bought 2 kilos of mussels, nice spanish wine, bread, fruit, cheese and high quality Serrano ham, all for under 30 euros! Food was incredibly cheap and fresh here so if you have access to cooking facilities, i truly recommend you to cook something simple. And for those who don't cook, there are many tapas bars here and plenty of stores for you to buy food to take back home as presents!