We woke a little later than normal as I was a bit under the weather after watching Spain lose to England.
Eventually though we got underway and headed out to look over Madrid. The light was lovely, but already a little harsh.
The view from the top of the terrace bar at the Bellas Artes was lovely, even though they charge a mint for coffee.
We then wandered down and had a look at the revamped Correos building. The old post office has been done up as a free exhibition space with restaurants and bars. We paid more shekels to go to the top tower and get some more views of Madrid. All the way to the sierra.
Lovely, but we were headed to lunch with Luisa and Vivi, who live a couple of metro stops out of central Madrid. It was a lovely catch up, consisting mostly in demolishing 15 tonnes of food. We lunched at a taurino restaurant (bullfight themed) near Ventas bull fighting stadium. Marjan is certain a group of young men who lunched near us were trainee bullfighters, or at least she would like to believe that.
Let me see if I get this straight : Oreja de Cerdo(Pigs Ear), Jamon Iberico, Ensalada Rusa, Alcachofas, Queso followed by Rabo de Toro for me and Calamares for Marjan. That of course was accompanied by manzanilla to start and a couple of bottles of Spanish Chardy to go on with. When we were asked if we wanted dessert we all thought back to the dreaded after dinner mint and said no.
A walk in the park afterwards was required to make us capable of speech. Kidding aside a lovely meal and a lovely catch up.
We are catching up with another cousin, Marga, tomorrow. Dreading the physiological consequences of today's meal I have planned tomorrow to be merely a quick drink in a bar somewhere.......God only know if we manage to keep it that way. Interestingly I believe I have lost some weight.
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