24 hours of beards, boars & beach! Part 2: Boars, aka suckling pig in Barcelona

Wednesday, February 6th, 7:42am: It's pouring down rain and miserable in Lausanne. Jen and I board a train from Lausanne to Geneva airport to catch our 20 CHF flight to Barcelona. As some of you know, this trip was supposed to be taken by 8 of us, but 6 people (Jacqui, Joe, Adrian, Sai, Stephan & Kristen) managed to forget about a conference they had to attend at EPFL also occurring on Feb. 6th when we booked the tickets in November. So, in the end, only Jen and I were willing and able to head to Barcelona for lunch for some much loved suckling pig at El Yantar de la Ribera.

-checking in at a self-help kiosk in Geneva airport was a bit against the point of walking directly from train to plane and back, but it did produce this awfully guilt ridden photo-op. As the screen says, 'Any remaining passengers may check in later'

11:05am: Our plane lands in sunny Barcelona where Jen and I disembark to the tarmac like rockstars and realize that we forgot our sunglasses. We decide that it doesn't really matter because it 18 degrees Celsius and there's no need for a jacket!

noon: We arrive at Place Catalunya and head to a local bakery for a snack before lunch. We then take the metro and walk to the restaurant.

1:30pm: Lunch!

-Like always, I'm too embarassed to take pictures with the flash on, so all my pictures of the inside of the oven were coming out blurry. So I had the 'brilliant' idea to take a video of the oven master seasoning the meat and putting it back into the wood stove.

-Jen & I with our meals... Can you tell I'm excited!

3:00pm: Dessert. Jen and I decide to split a pastry and enjoy the basket of liquors... maybe a little too much...and then discussed what we should do in our last hour or so in Barcelona.... to the beach!