A distinctive trait:  write about Sonia and Nonnel.

There are so many types of interesting faces in Barcelona and they seem like they come from a different time. Everywhere I look I see a face that came off a canvas from the museum [MNAC-one of my favorites!]

Sonia, the woman from one of my favorite restaurants and the "chef", Paco, could both be in a Nonnel painting...there's just something so interesting to me about their eyes, noses and profile.  Something about her smile and warmth and his silent smile, too.

The Nonell painting are much more static then my friends a the bar who are in perpetual motion but their faces seem so old, from another time that we don't have in the States. Their seemingly carry centuries of history whereas ours seem so new