Day 11 - Shopping and Being Lazy

Since the only plans today were to eat lunch, go shopping and eat dinner, we didn't head out until about 1. I tried to get a picture capturing a scene we've seen here all week, but it didn't quite turn out. We couldn't figure why the people were lined up around blocks for a freakin' lottery ticket. It seems it's not just any lottery, but the world famous Spanish El Gordo lottery. It's 20 euro a ticket but 1 in 6 is a winner with a top prize of about 2.2 billion euro or so.

Lunch was at La Barraca, which is famous for their paella, but since C wasn't interested in paella, we opted for the Veal Scallopini and the Beef Madrilena style (which was like a cordon blue with veal instead of chicken).
(1) Sangria, of course (2) Callos A La Madrilena (Tripe) (3) Escalopines de Tenera (4) Madrilena de Ternera



Then it was a stop at a clothes store K has been dying to go into - Punt Roma.

Time for siesta and more shopping later.

For dinner, we opted for a neighborhood Cuban restaurant, Zara. It was 8:30 and we were still the only people in da house. I guess that's why they immediately knew to offer us the English menu. Since their daiquiris are legendary, we opted for banana and mango daiquiris to accompany our ropa vieja and no lo se whatever C had, but it was a minced meat with rice and fried banana.



Tomorrow, we're flying back home. So, we'll probably have one last update. It's been fun and we've already decided that returning to Spain again is a MUST, especially Barca. Hasta Manana.