Toe to toe on Las Ramblas, Barcelona.

Las Ramblas is filled with street performers, souvenir shops, pet stores and thousands upon thousands of people wandering up and down it’s significant length. Here, we ate churros, ride chopper-style bicycles at breakneck speeds through incredibly dense crowds, watched some amazing street performers and yes, took photos.

At our hotel, the owner went to great lengths to advise us of the dangers of walking along Las Ramblas — pickpockets, scam artists, thieves and other ne’er do wells of various description.

We never saw any of this, with the exception of a large crowd gathered around a man running three-card Monte. With delight, we watched people try to beat the game and fail each time.