La Boqueria Market, Barcelona

This market. Uhg. I am going everyday. Yesterday we walked around Barcelona for 8 hours (not even kidding) and I was so exhausted and hungry because a museum guard made me throw out my apple and thirsty because I forgot my water bottle and my feet were KILLING me. And my knees hurt and I had a sunburn and I had to pee really bad. But. But I still insisted on walking to this market for a fresh juice and a mango just because I love this market THAT much. There are basically four types of stalls: meat, fish, produce, nuts/chocolate/etc. If you happen to need a skinned goats head still with eyes and teeth, they have those. Or if you want fresh fruit juice in amazing flavor combos like kiwi-coconut, strawberry-guava or mango-banana they have that too. They are sooo good and icy-cold and possibly sweetened with the blood of angels.

Oh and the produce. The produce in the UK/Europe has honestly been pretty hit or miss. Some places it's been great: fresh, seasonal, tasty. Others have been really old and just... bad. But seriously, all the produce we have tried from this market has been perfect. The best mango I've ever had in the history of well, my life, came from this market. And eggs!! Oh man, I could do an entire post about the eggs we have eaten over this trip. Back in Portland we have some friends who own chickens and whenever they give us eggs I literally (ok, figuratively) run to the stove to cook and consume them immediately because they are always the best eggs with crazy huge neon orange egg yolks. I cannot seem to find this kind of high quality egg in the stores. Even the really expensive organic, free range, farm fresh eggs have typical light yellow yolks. But not here. Seriously even the cheapest eggs have that amazing, cartoonishly orange yolk. Sometimes you'll get a dull looking yolk out of every dozen or so but no big deal. And the flavor! The staying power! Two of these bad boys in the morning and I'm not hungry for hooouuuuurs, which never happens to me. Anyway. Enough about eggs.