Its Monday night in Barcelona, evening after our tapas-bar intro to Kingdom of spain and a night out with a French straightening organization. Fiona and I also posses chose they “posh drinks nights” at W, the town’s more elegant five-star inn. Isolated on a sandy peninsula that juts out inside mediterranean and beyond, and with the cheeky saying, “Whatever, when,” the W and its 26th-floor Eclipse pub provides plenty of sign of scandal to encourage intrigue and validate a costly cocktail. And, in fact, the two main major women of Vicky Christina Barcelona’s little-known and totally imaginary sequel, Fiona Krystin(a) Barcelona, still haven’t 
discover his or her Juan Antonio.
Eclipse pub in the W Barcelona
Fiona’s enjoying yourself narrating our very own journey because we walk into the W after a latter seaside dinner:
*Krystin and Fiona enter the Eclipse club, wondering if he or she’ll line up their unique Juan Antonio. Krystin requires the beverage diet plan, wanting she had been much better acquainted with this more lively world today, one light years beyond their common considered one of plastic-cup rum-and-Cokes at a Midwestern status university. Girls order two Cosmos. It is, of course, a ladies’ week end. *Eighty per cent of the clientele are definitely customers and may have been organizing euros out the opening without seeing a change. This can be their unique preamble to per night out.
The other 20 percent are the gawkers, just who enjoy the euros float from the windows with noiseless heartbreak. This is their unique particular date.
The bar expands better disorderly covering the next hr . 5. Fiona and that I discover people-watching unbelievably interesting, and we order another beverage. It comes in a champagne flute and tastes like whatever is right around the globe. A lot of the friends leave around 12:30 A.M. to keep their particular date, but the young and expensive dancing before all of us have managed to move on to unique (heavy?) containers of wine, full-length Blond Man is currently moving with a cougar just who seems like she might get your back again to their lair. We worry for their protection and his tomorrow.
In to the turmoil moves men exactly who immediately captures my personal focus. The man inclines up against the bar aided by the self confidence i have simply previously noticed boys from mid-century movies pull off, and a green cashmere cardigan around their shoulders I not witnessed people accomplish.
“You’re merely checking your on because he sounds French,” Fiona whispers.
“But she’s actually appealing,” she gives.
He is elderly — possibly later mid-twenties or very early mid-thirties. Curly digestible hair, the cardigan, a tailored white in color clothing with rolled-up arm and thin khaki trouser that each set-off normally tan your skin. He isn’t examining his own contact, simply using a drink. We admire this self confidence.
He or she reports the field in front of him, which obviously contains myself. I study the stage in front of myself, which seriously include him. I reckon most of us prepare eye contact, but I’m not entirely positive, therefore I laugh in any event. They smiles down.
Fiona and that I continue talking, all of north america sporadically appearing toward the pub. I am seriously praying We possibly could fix my own locks. The next time I look up, the guy keeps your glimpse.
*Fiona and Krystin change disbelieving appearances. Is this girls’ Juan Antonio? The night, at 1 A.M., is youthful. Fiona twirls a-strand of tresses, wishing she’d received a blow-dryer. Krystin is definitely thinking just what a smile got/will see her into. Both ladies know the evening is going to be more interesting than both had expected.
“will you self easily lay? An individual girls are experiencing fun, I am also by yourself ere,” he says with a true look and beautiful French feature.
They rests right down to simple appropriate and introduces himself—he’s already been below for partner’s bachelor’s function, and appreciated Barcelona much this individual expanded his continue to be several days. The three of people right away fall under a lively discussion, connecting along the appeal of town. Fiona, usually the comedienne, somehow is able to generally be even wittier than normal. I’m frightened almost nothing We state would be verbalized correctly, therefore I just try to avoid stare and from time to time emit noises of arrangement.
We find from the Fox was created and lifted in Algiers, subsequently moved to Paris as he is 16. He or she resided indeed there until he was 22, next moved to London to be hired at just what he says is definitely a “boring” finance career. He’s been there about eight a long time, he states. Fiona, a Londoner, discovers he lives in Mayfair—which, she informs me 24 hours later, try an incredibly classy part of the town (“Prince Harry fades truth be told there!”).
He’s wonderful, and comes down as extremely genuine. It won’t seem to be he attended the bar all alone to get teenagers. The night is actually developing along in quite the French-fashion: Most people happened to be right here, and then he was right here, and today all of us are having a great time, and that is that is happening right now.