visit from a friend

so a month ago, this amazing person I worked with last summer and who happened to be studying in Sevilla came to visit Madrid for a weekend. unfortunately, I got the flu that Thursday. it was bad like can't stand up and super chills bad. but gladly I was able to make it out Saturday.

met up at sol, at the bear and walked to this tapas bar called Zapateria. when you walk in, there's this huge, huge bowl..no thing, thing is the better word - thing of paella. here's a blurry picture of it.
we had a seat under the staircase. like if Harry Potter had a table at a restaurant, this would be it.

we had snails, paella, of course bread and sangria. I think our waiter had a little crush on my friend because he kept refilling the pitcher for free. or maybe that's how it works. idk. anyway it was really good.



another thing about this place: it was on the travel channel! I watch the travel channel a ton at home. like way too much. it's like you get to pseudoexperience all these places without actually leaving your home. so good. anyway, this place is the first one on this clip of bizarre foods. one of my dad's favorite shows.



then of course we went to Kapital. the huge nightclub Madrid is famoso for. good times. this isn't a fire, it's just the cool gas stuff that relieves the mass of sweaty people. it comes during the peaks of the techno songs. we try to anticipate when it happens and got pretty good at it by the end of the night.



and like any night at Kapital we caught the 6 a.m. metro home.

read Amy's blog here: http://besosfromespana.wordpress.com/
she's way more diligent with her posting schedule. I'll have to go down to Sevilla sometime to see her city of study.