Walk down Rambla del Poblenou on a Tuesday morning and you’ll see old men playing cards outside a bar that hasn’t changed its sign since 1962, a graphic designer cycling past on her way to a converted warehouse, and a couple of tourists looking slightly confused about whether they’ve arrived somewhere interesting or accidentally left the city.
They’ve arrived somewhere interesting. Very interesting.
Poblenou is the part of Barcelona that the guidebooks keep almost getting right. They call it