Doctor Paper

At Doctor Paper you can buy secret ink for your secret love letters: L’encre sympathique! It’s pink ink - heat it over a candle, when reading your notes.
There are also secret diaries and patinated travel notebooks for all big capitals in Europe. Or your own personal cookbook to write your own recipes, with sections for cooking time, ingredients and kitchenware. You can find notebooks to keep track of what you served your guests, so no one will ever get the same meal twice. Or cutout dolls in every shape, from little girls with the hair color you desire to a fifties pin-up or a baby pin-up! 
This is also the place to get chewing gum, which will provide you with a new hair-do ”Instant Afro Gum” and you can ”Last Supper after-dinner-mints”.
Jazz up your gift wraps with scotch tape with images of bacon or sausages.

Adres: Carrer del Rec, 40

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Freya

Freya is a store located right by Placa de la Virreina. It almost looks like a candy store with its enormous choice of artistically ornamented rings, necklaces and bracelets in every color imaginable. The owner, Teresa, is a charming woman. With her flaming red mane, she looks like one of the artists that she seeks out to produce all the jewelry for her little shop. She finds everything with local artists, it’s a young style and it’s not very expensive.  A silver chain with a big red faceted stone is 18 Euros. 

Adres: Carrer de Verdi 17

Gracia District

With streets of hidden galleries, bars giving eight-bit music concerts, poets assembling on roof gardens, young chefs opening new types of eateries, and local designers pushing out their season collections, the Gracia District has a lot of its own sub-cultures lending their creative juices to making the barrio a very unique place to visite. Gracia is popular among students, and offers a lot of nice restaurants and bars for the student budget. All the squares in this zone, such as Plaça del Sol, Plaça del Diamant and Plaça Virreina are filled with nightlife.
On Mozart street lots of good bars are to be found. Ikastola is a nice Restaurant to have cheap dinner on La Perla Street.

Bar Virreina

Bar Virreina is kept real hush hush and the locals are desperate for it to remain that way. The bar is located in the Gracia district, and it's ideal for people watching. Appear part of the crowd by ordering a "claras", which is a concoction of beer and lemonade.

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