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eksmith

Hello everyone,

I've been living in Barcelona for about a month now, and I'm finding that I still haven't found some of the best places to pick up those odds and ends.  Perhaps this is because I'm living in city-center, where the high-end shopping and tourism prevails. 

I'm looking into picking up a few small things, such as:
a good kitchen chopping knife
some type of a fan (box fan, standing fan, not too particular)
a clothes-drying rack
lids for pots and pans
and (just recently) a replacement battery charger for my digital camera. 

It's not as if I haven't seen these items out there - I have.  But I'm not too keen to pay 60 Euro for a knife at El Corte Ingles, or 35 Euro for a fan.  I've found a few odds and end stores that keep their items at 1 Euro or maybe a little more, but these are the few remaining items that I haven't been able to find.  I'm willing to go a little out of my way if I can pick up a few of these things - currently I live East of Placa Reial, a few streets in from La Rambla. 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!

cantdocell

If you still haven't found your items (I realize I'm writing a couple of months later), check any well-stocked ferrateria, which often have very decent kitchen items and things like fans. I got my drying rack at one of those little shops they call els xinesos, i.e., run by Chinese people, and you may have luck at one of those places for a cheaper knockoff battery charger.

oreneta

I'll put this up for future readers too....the Market in BCN is great for much of that...though I am not sure I would buy electronics.  It is over by Plaçes Glories...that big round flyover there...on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings.  There are several excellent kitchenwear types as well as most everything else.

My favourite kitchen ware place in BCN is a little tiny hole of a shop just south of the Bouqueria (where else).  If you walk down the south side of the bouqueria, about half way down...well the first street you get to as you are walking in from Les Rambles...there is a small flight of stairs going towards the sea down to a street.  Go down those an take the first left...the store is on the left as you walk back towards las Rambles....

I will double check the directions when I get a chance.

oreneta

Ok...the favourite kitchen place is on carrer de la Petxina...off la Rambles and carrer de la cabreres.  If this link still works..here is a google map link.

  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&saddr … =UTF8&z=17

Those are so ugly.  The Mercat de San José is commonly called la Bouqeria.

The market in Barcelona is shown on this google map...hope the link still works...how long do they keep those things?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&saddr … =UTF8&z=15

Where Gran Via and Diagonal meet up in a huge round about/flyover thing.  A giant flea market...Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings.  Watch for pickpockets and have a blast.

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