Tag Archives: Barcelona
Barcelona Street Chic
Personal style in Barcelona reflects the city’s modernist architecture: playful, sometimes colorful, and daring. There’s little focus on logos and labels and more on line, organic shapes, and playing colors off of one another.
A mustard-yellow velvet jacket adds a pop of color. The skirt is also interesting, pleated and slightly deconstructed. (more…)
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Tagged Barcelona, bikes, street chic, travel
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Cocktail Trends: El Gin Tonic?
Cocktail trends come and cocktail trends go, and sometimes they even come back again before you even know they went. According to today’s Times, rum is on the up and up, meanwhile, it seems like just yesterday that tiki bar Waikiki Wally’s opened, then closed, in the East Village.
But you really don’t realize how ridiculous cocktail trends are until you see them at work in another culture. In Barcelona right now, the coolest possible drink to order is not something involving bitters, chartreuse, absinthe, or even rye, it’s a good ol’ gin and tonic, pronounced “GIN TOH-neek.” That’s right Mom and Dad: Your taste in drinks is big in Barcelona. (more…)
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Tagged Barcelona, bars, East Village rants, travel
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