Today was our “Culinary Delight” Tour of the City. The tour was due to start at 12 but lunch in this country doesn’t start until 2 pm. So our wonderful tour guide showed us the various sites of the city. We got to see the Cathedral (this is Spain, what is life without a cathedral?), shopping area, royal palace, ocean (this place has nothing on Hermosa Beach in regards to an ocean or beach) and then we moved on to the bars.
We enjoyed all sorts of wonderful things to eat. We had pig’s ear, cod stomach, veal cheeks and Hake egg sac (see attached photo of me about to down some of those unborn little Hake babies).
After the tour we took a brief rest at the room and then went to a Basque singing/dance performance at a local theater. The theater was lovely but the performers will not be seen on Broadway in the near future. One dancer fell, another lost his sash (belt) and a third didn’t come on stage until the group routine was about half completed.
The performance ended at about 9:30 letting us get back on the town just about time for dinner. We revisited two places from last night’s eating frenzy. At the first we stuck with some big winners from our first trip and added some new treasures tonight. Last night we finished off our pintxo (pincho) experience with the most amazing cheesecake ever eaten. Tonight we had to go back to make sure it wasn’t a fluke or a dream. It was as good as we remembered (or even better). I think a third trip is almost a guarantee for tomorrow night.
Until later,
Roberto aka “el gordo”
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