Barcelona - Day 8
Running out of time and too hungry to walk around any further, we made a second visit to Sandwich&Friends (yes, their sandwiches are that good), then we picked up our GoCar near Santa Caterina Market to begin our adventurous tour on this yellow cute thing!
It turns out that the GoCar is actually a scooter with a car-like shell, there is no steering wheel at all. If you have experience driving a scooter you'd feel at home. Control is pretty simple and the staff is friendly and helpful. The built-in GPS guide is what makes GoCar tour a unique experience - the comforting female GPS voice tells you exactly where to go and it is OK to make mistakes (and we did, a few times). You will be brought back on tour easily or you could drive to wherever you like.
We were a bit nervous in the beginning but after a short while we began having some great fun. The roads in Barcelona are easy to navigate, parking slots for scooters are plenty and free, and people's driving attitude is very safe and polite. After following the uptown tour a while, we fell off the tour near Sagrada Familia, and headed to the wrong way which led us to Camp Nou - The Barcelona Football Club Stadium, which we have already planned to go.
It was a fabulous drive to Camp Nou, we didn't realize it would be so easy and exciting! The Camp Nou Experience is totally worth the euro 17 even if you are not a football fan like me. The whole presentation of the Club's history and culture, its importance to Catalonia, and the Stadium itself all made the experience very memorable. As a geek, one would also be fascinated by their giant interactive audio-visual touch-screens in the museum. Simply awesome.
After the GoCar tour, we headed back to the city but it was too late to visit the Picasso Museum but bumped into a very cool cafe Lilipep nearby and spent a very relaxing time sipping coffee and reading there.
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