I will keep my report focuses on absinthe, as the rest of the trip would take ages.
This first picture has nothing to do with absinthe. However, I was amazed that a glass of Leffe is only 2.50 euros in france! Wow!

I took a set in Marseilles, France, for a glass of Pastis. In all the cities I visited, I did not find ONE bar that had absinthe. Pastis on the other hand, was all over southern France, as expected.

Here we see a bottle of the most common bottle I found in Barcelona liquor stores and souvenier shops. I bought a bottle out of excitement, since it was the first one I found. Note, this "Diable Absinthe," comes in all sorts of colors! Green, red, blue, orange, etc.

I made it to Spirits Corner, in Barcelona, the real store. It is called "La Cava de Los Faros." After walking a few miles to the location, I arrived to a closed store. I was pissed. All this absinthe in the window, and I couldn't get in. However, all stores in Barcelona randomly close throughout the afternoon for extended lunches... or something like that. So I had a few cigs, waited around, and sure enough, the shopkeepers came back and reopened it. There were two elderly folks, a man and a woman. I told them I had purchased from them before, but they did not recognize my name (I haven't ordered from them in years). I only bought a bottle of Montmarte from them while in the store. This picture is the left side of their main ABSINTHE window.

This is the right side of the absinthe window.

Store Front

Store Front

Here we have another VERY popular absinthe in Barcelona, and in the other cities I visited. Blue and Red Absinthe.

This is a glass of "louched" Diable Verte, haha, in my hotel room.

This is me drinking the glass, before I ventured out to a jazz club called Jamboree.
