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Mary's paella - not so good, but we weren't sure why. The seafood was perfectly cooked and the rice wasn't overcooked or hard as it can be with some paella, but the flavour just didn't seem right. Surprisingly, there wasn't any chorizo in there. Caldeirada - wow! Two types of fish, merluza and rape, both good but with different textures, the merluza like a typical fish, but the rape with a much denser texture. Mussels, clams, shrimps, potatoes, all in a thick tomato sauce and most of it perfectly cooked, it was a veritable fiesta of seafood. Yummy! The only bad thing was that the shrimps had that slightly fishy flavour because they were still in their shells, so their veins had not been removed
Hooray for Spanish Tina Fey!!!

January 5th 2010
Geo: 42.8804, -8.5463Though our bus departed Salamanca nearly 30 minutes late, we still arrived in Santiago de Compostela a few minutes ahead of schedule, surprisingly. Also a surprise was how cold and dark it was - it looked like the middle of the night, and the sun didn't start to brighten the sky until well after 9 AM. We made our way down to the Hostal Pazo de Agra - though we had asked ... read more
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Spanish Flag Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more
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