When life gives you lemons, drink Cava

There is something so humbling about walking through the Bario Gotica, a neighborhood that was created in 1086. Yes, ten eighty-six. There is something so peaceful about walking through a church that has stood in place for a thousand years, when your feet walk along the same stones as others have walked, of lives who have lived before your own. Something so uniquely strange about placing your hand in narrow grooves along a wall and learning that the grooves were made by Roman soldiers sharpening their swords. There is something so lovely about being here, about seeing these things and strolling these streets, experiencing this amazing Spanish city of Barcelona.