Sadly my posts are now just food. I guess travelling solo is giving me the ability to be present and take it all in without thinking of taking pictures of everything. But this one’s important! Haha.
Don’t get me wrong, I love bread and charcuterie - it’s seriously like one of my favorite things. But I’ve had that almost everyday here and it’s kind of hard to find veggies and farmers market stuff here like I’m used to in Oakland. Living out of a hotel I have to go out for every meal and bocadillos (little sandwiches of bread and ham) are everywhere and are cheap and easy. I’ve also had some bad luck with food here, mostly every time i go to eat it’s siesta time and things are closed or they are supposed to be open and they’re not and i end up at some bougie place when i really just wanted some cheap tapas. I still haven’t tried the paella here! So…It was so cold and windy, howling wind, that I was tempted to stay in. But I went to this cute restaurant right next to my hotel called Elbar. I couldn’t believe it - they had salmon with quinoa and veggies! I know I know, so Bay Area of me. It was great and it was so windy the windows were clamoring and making noise the whole time. But I was happy. Also, people were sitting down at 10:45pm to have dinner - with their babies!!! Typical schedule here is breakfast around 10 or 11 am, lunch at 2, siesta 3:30-6 dinner at 10pm.
I guess I wasn’t that tired of cheese because I got a cheesecake to go. It was delicious. And I’m not sorry.