Today I had lunch at La Champagneria again which is one of my favourite places here in Barcelona. For a couple of euros you get great food and countless refills of the local pink champagne Cava until you get just as beautifully tipsy as one can get on a monday afternoon without tipping over.

The beauty of the place is that cava is the only thing you can order with your meat, chicken, chorizo or ham burger so every single person you see in the crowd is both chewing and sipping alcohol, or in other words – happy and interesting.

So we had our bocadillos and a plate of jamón, finished our glasses of cava and stepped out into the Barcelona sun.. and that’s kind of when I realised that this city is mine now and that I am living here – within walking distance from la champagneria.