| WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 14, 2009 |
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I
used to like Santa, but as I've grown
older, his gifts have become markedly
less pleasant. This year, for example,
he didn't just leave me the usual January
overdraft, but decided to bestow me with
a muffin top, too. |
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Until
then, I'd managed to blame the slipping
waistline - just a little bloatedness,
you see - on intolerance to lactose, wheat
or something. But when one's
back flesh starts popping out to say hello,
then even I know that it's time to hit
the gym.
So it's no bad thing that Club Metropolitan
has just opened its newest, and so far
largest, centre in Barcelona: some 7,000
m2 of spa and health club with views of
La Sagrada Familia. If you aren't familiar
with Club Met, then think upscale Arsenal-like
facilities, but at a price level closer
to DiR.
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That's
certainly one major upgrade for
your buck. But perhaps the most
attractive feature is the long weekend
opening hours: no longer is it necessary
to trade off sleeping in, lunch
(ok, on a diet, maybe not always
a bad thing) and working out. Santa,
that's one muffin top heading back
your way, double time.
Club
Metropolitan Sagrada Familia
- now open
Provença 408, Eixample Dreta
- 93 507 3325
From EUR 49 per month
Monday-Friday 7h-23h, Saturday-Sunday
9h-22h
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TODAY'S EVENT PICKS |
One
of the most creative minds in the
current jazz scene, Pete
Robbins plays tonight at Jamboree.
Plaza Real 17, 21 y 23h. EUR 10. |
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Audience
and art work play together in Marcel·lí
Antúnez Roca's latest interactive
landscape. Metamembranas,
CCCB, Montalegre 5, 19h. Gratis. |
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Photographer Mark Laita works on the different extremes of American society in the series Created Equal. Galería Triangle, Consell de Cent 291. Free. |
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Original
member of the Herman Düne trio,
Stanley
Brinks plays tonight with french
songstress Freschard.
Heliogábal, Ramón
y Cajal 80, 22h. EUR 6. | |
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