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Published: September 20th 2011
Symbol of Spain
This statue is the icon of Spain, a bear climbing up a madrono tree.Bienvenidos a mi blog! Yesterday was a looonnngg day-I left Seattle at 11am and arrived in Spain at 2am our time, but 11am there. Sleeping wasn´t quite on the menu on the plane, but I was running off of excitment and adrenaline, which kept me going. My friend Veronica picked me up and once we dropped off the luggage, we had a really nice walk around a great park by her house-lots of trees, a lake, museums, etc. We went back for lunch and made gaspacho (a cold tomato soup) and rizotto..yum! And we also had bread with iberian ham, tomato, and olive oil. I already feel like a Spaniard! After our siesta 😊 we headed out again and took the metro downtown. The architecture is amazing! The best part was an open mercado with about 30 different tapas booths. We got croquetas which are round and fried, with a creamy mixture inside-we got 1 with fish, 1 with ham, and 1 with shrimp. Then we headed to the Galician booth with pieces of bread that had a million different fish combos- we tried tuna, cod, and lomo, which is dried tuna...
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I'm looking forward to following your travel blog. Loved the descriptions of the food, and your first experiences in Madrid. You go, girl! Fran