Almond Cream Soup

Barcelona, the city of Gaudí, Dali, pimps, whores, drug pushers, itinerant tango dancers, fabulous restaurants, brilliant bars – in short, the whole shebang of a culturally erotic city – is a superb place. It is a city like Avignon or Hamburg, a city of high art and low life, a city of style and a city of menace.

But if you find yourself spending twelve hours in Barcelona Airport, hustled and jostled by the great unwashed on their holidays, sitting on a comfortable seat if you can f