by the Night Writer Here are all the slide shows from our trip to Spain, consolidated in one post (including the new slideshows of Cazorla and Madrid). Some of the photos will be familiar from posts I put up while we were over there, pre-slideshow. All the Cazorla slides, however, came from our friends who [...]
by Tiger Lilly …well, this is the good, anyway. For the bad and the ugly, see my previous Adventures In Dining post. When in Rome Madrid (or Barcelona), eat what the Madridians (or Barcelonians) eat. This was a delicious pizza. I ate most of it. I was trying to cut it into slices, but then [...]
by the Night Writer …or, as they’d say in Catalan, the official language of Barcelona, “El meu aerolliscador està ple d’anguiles.” Knowing that Castillian Spanish wasn’t necessarily welcome in Catalunya (Catalonia) was one of the things that I was aware of before traveling to Spain. There were other things I was kind of aware of, [...]
by the Night Writer The last few days of our trip were spent in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, or Catalunya as it is referred to in Spain. It seemed to me that Barcelona has a more cosmopolitan feel than Madrid and is very focused on art and culture. Mere function isn’t enough when designing [...]
by Tiger Lilly While we were in Spain, I had some … interesting, shall we say, experiences in food. We went out with a few of Mom and Dad’s friends from their branch of Pueblo Ingles. It’s usual for restaurants in Spain to serve complimentary bread. Bread is good. Bread is very good. One of [...]
by the Night Writer One day while we were still in Madrid we decided to take a day trip to nearby city of Segovia, once the seat of the Spanish kings and the site of an ancient but still functioning Roman aqueduct. Segovia is a little more than 60 miles from Madrid and can be [...]
by Tiger Lilly We went to the Mediterranean Sea today. The water was warm, surprisingly enough, and the waves were… happy. In fact, they inspired a poem: Ah, the blue of the sea I am floating in a cloud of dreams I am one with the– WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?! Okay, so Dad wrote [...]
by the Night Writer Minnesota may be home to the Mall of America, but Madrid at night has to be the Mall of the World, especially on the weekends. Dinner is served very late here by American standards, often not until 9 p.m. (and may go on for a couple of hours) and when dinner [...]
by the Night Writer One evening Cazorla we had a special treat…Paella! “Hello, I am your waiter, Inego Montoya. You dropped your paella. Prepare to die!” bookmark to:
by the Night Writer While the Reverend Mother and I are keeping busy at our Pueblo Ingles program, we have assumed that Tiger Lilly was similarly occupied at her own PI venue with other teen-agers. It´s impossible to keep things from getting back to your parents, however, and kingdavid at The Far Wright brought the [...]
