Bubble and squeak November 20, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Personal , add a commentHaving now eaten bubble and squeak (leftover potatoes and veggies mashed up and fried together the next morning) in London, I can vouch for the fact that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Your thoughts?Report from Madrid: Day 2 November 19, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Personal, Photos , add a commentNovember 7: Did some laundry today, so I now have enough socks and underwear to make it through Marrakesh. I can wear pants for weeks on end and shirts day after day. I’m even willing to double up on underwear, but I have to have clean socks every day.
I had to hang my clothes out to dry. I’ve never done that before - it was actually quire enjoyable. Though I suspect that if I had to do it more than once it would be less fun.
For lunch I went to a shop that had 100 different bocadines (little sandwiches) for 1.20 euros, did my best with the Spanish menu and then headed to La Museo Reina Sofia to listen in on Sarah’s art class. Today’s lesson was on Miró. There’s something really cool about learning about art and seeing the actual painting in front of me, rather than some tiny illustration in a textbook.
On my way home I stopped in a bakery and ordered the most interesting looking thing, which turned out to be a pan dulce. It wasn’t that good, so I went to an asian supermarket and bought a prepackaged horchata, which also wasn’t that good. And so I ended up going out for pinchos (little snacks, like tapas but you pay for them), followed by a trip to a Giangrossi where we sampled about 10 different mysterious Spanish flavors of ice cream(including carrot!) before finally settling on turrón, lemon ginger, fruit and granola, mint chocolate chip, and hazelnut.
Report from Madrid: Day 1 November 17, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Personal, Photos , 1 comment so farNovember 6: I arrived in Madrid armed with four years of high school Spanish. Today was mostly spent recuperating from Munich, but I did have time to see a really pretty building.
I also made a quick pass through the Plaza Mayor as well as Madrid’s biggest park, though what really impressed me were the duck ladders on all the ponds. It’s funny to think that there was an actual person (or perhaps a committee?) who thought “Oh no, what if a duck lands in our pond and then isn’t able to get out?!” and then was willing to deal with all the red tape to actually get little tiny step ladders installed everywhere.
Evening finished by making some new friends over an authentic Spanish sangria. Authentic Spanish sangria is different from American sangria in that it’s got a half inch of undissolved sugar at the bottom of each glass. The sugar rush begins!
Back in London November 16, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Personal , 1 comment so farIt’s nice to be back among people who speak my language. Though it’s funny how paying $60 for a dinner in London seems totally reasonable while being “ripped off” by paying $10 for dinner in Marrakesh takes a serious emotional toll. Apparently it’s not what I pay that matters to my emotional well-being, it’s what everyone else pays.
Your thoughts?Feeding frenzy in Marrakesh November 15, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Personal , add a commentToday will be an all-out assault on my stomach. I’m headed to London tomorrow, I can handle a bit of food poisoning on the plane. Everything I see that looks remotely edible (with the possible exception of the sheep brains) will be consumed today…
Your thoughts?