Outside the Cathedral are some very large trees with glossy dark green leaves, and curious looking fruit. Pale, circular, possibly with prickles, not sure as they are too high up to see clearly. But when the fruits open they have red seeds, well we assume they're seeds.
Any ideas what tree it is?
On with our walk, stopped for a beer and tapas in the shade, couldn't decide where to eat really. So many restaurants to choose from but their
menu del dia options were very similar. And nothing different to what we can cook at home. The nice thing about being away is to eat foods that are different. Our first tapas was
migas. It means crumbs in English, traditionally day old bread crumbled and cooked with olive oil, fried peppers or meat added to it. A filler-upper for families but now quite often served in restaurants. Think cous cous, the texture is similar.
Calle Navas is advertised on tourist sites as tapas street, although almost every bar serves tapas with a drink, not just on this street, maybe just a few nuts or olives but almost always something. We stopped at one for a
tubo and tapas, this time we were served tortilla Granadina XI. Think of eggy bread but this was heavy, not light and crispy at all!
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| plus grated carrot - why? |
On with our wanderings and looking at menus, then round the corner and on the plaza opposite our hotel we saw a restaurant serving spicy Turkish food. Nice and different so we ordered beef doner kebabs, fries with spicy ketchup and mint yoghurt dressing. And a beer and a glass of rioja.
If we hadn't stopped twice already we might have managed to eat it all! Enormous servings!
After a few hours rest, we ventured out again for a drink then on to dinner.
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| The most enormous G+T plus tortilla and my rioja. |
Continuing our spicy food day we went to Chile Grande in the evening.
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