Delicious Tappas

Yes, it was a good thing that I took this flat. I am so much more relaxed after this. Now I can do all these things I wanted to do. This afternoon I will go to the big park, el retiro, lie in the sun and read a good book. Looking forward to it.

There is a funny story to tell, which happened yesterday evening. Ira arrived to Madrid as well and we decided that we should go out on this first evening and have some tappas with Nadine and Mirjam, two other girls from Switzerland. Being in this nice "swiss-german-connection" we went to a typical Spanish place. Soon we had decided for 3 dishes, but we wanted something else. There was a dish called "callo" which we did not know what it was. Ok, to figure out what it was we had a look at the English translation. Tripe, what the hell... (The ones of you that are fluent in English or at least in English food names must already be laughing out loud...) Anyways, I was thinking of the nice spareribs I just had lately and was convinced that this trips thing must be something similar and I convinced the others to order this (Sorry again girls). When the waiter brought the food it already looked disgusting. (Mirjam has some pics of the food). Finally we did not eat it, as it also smelled disgusting which made the waiter quite angry, because we did not eat his delicious food. For all those that still do not know what this tripe thing is, it's pork or cow stomach. In German also called "Kutteln". So whenever you go to Spain, never order this! (Also not in any other place of the world.) We actually decided that we would not even eat this if we were staving for 3 days. (Ok, this one is still to proove)
I just want to make sure that you don't have a wrong impression of Spanish food. All the other tappas are actually extremely delicious. Really!