{"id":5724,"date":"2014-07-10T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2014-07-10T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:46:23","slug":"instawalk-el-raval-sagrada-familia-inspired-lauberge-espagnole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/07\/instawalk-el-raval-sagrada-familia-inspired-lauberge-espagnole\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: Through El Raval to the Sagrada Familia, Inspired by L’Auberge Espagnole"},"content":{"rendered":"

see also Part 1: Old Barcelona<\/a> and Part 2: Hills and\u00a0Beaches<\/a><\/p>\n

sigh, my last day in Barcelona and there’s still so much i haven’t seen. thanks to stumbling across a great tumblr<\/a> someone put together of filming locations, i had a great itinerary for this morning to see, firsthand, some of the lesser-known spots in the old city center that were used in the movie, and then finally check out the holy grail of Barcelona sites, La Sagrada Familia.<\/p>\n

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But first, a cortado. I’m gonna miss these! (I wonder if it’s possible to replicate with a Nespresso?)<\/p><\/div>\n

la paloma<\/h3>\n

ahh, the club where everyone partied like it’s 1999 and got\u00a0horribly wasted. it’s a big confusing because there were hints online that it had closed down (which is why i didn’t try to go earlier in the week) but i think it was actually closed for refurbishment and it’s open again now? i’m not sure since their website is down, but the neighbors, at least in one building, seem to despise this club based on the banners they’ve hung out front — clearly these “silenci” posters aren’t (weren’t?) doing much to help matters.<\/p>\n

\"La<\/a>

“I don’t like clubs, and I don’t like dancing…techno music bores me, all right?”<\/p><\/div>\n

pla\u00e7a de sant agust\u00ed<\/h3>\n

ahhh, one of my favorite scenes in the movie, partially because it’s so clich\u00e9d (some American nomad with a guitar, leading everyone in “No Woman No Cry”) and partially because i’m jealous i never had such an experience in my youth. whatever bench they were sitting on in the movie is now gone — if it was there at all (maybe it was a prop), and as it turns out, the small square\/intersection is quite a busy pedestrian one with a hotel on one side and a church on another. the first picture is from the actors’ point of view (i.e., the movie camera was facing the opposite direction); the second picture shows the side of the church, along which they all walked after their night of drunken fun.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

“Everything’s gonna be all right, everything’s gonna be all right.”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After<\/a>

“Except uh, the monsoon started, and that was a bit of a problem because at the hotel we had snakes coming out of the toilet…”<\/p><\/div>\n

i should note that i was all too ecstatic to find this place:<\/p>\n

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Romain Duris (fake) peed and Kevin Bishop (fake) barfed at this very corner! #movietourism<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/NN10CSkuJ2<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) July 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n