Paella and Things.

I love paella. It isn't actually a Spanish dish, so much as it is a Valencia dish, but still. It is delicious, and there are restaurants in Madrid where you can get it, and have I mentioned that it is delicious?

Last Saturday, Christina and I went walking (literally, we covered Madrid and were probably moving for at least 4 hours straight). We met up in the Chueca metro stop (we happened to be riding the same train when we got there, which I find super-coincidental), and made our way to a delicious little paella restaurant called, "La Paella de la Reina".  We had gazpacho, too, and it was all fantastic. Here are some pictures of Christina's paella plate and mine taken at approximately the same time during the meal:

Mine's the one on the right, in case you can't tell. And I might have helped Christina polish off the rest of hers. Afterwards, we were so full, that we felt like exploring, so explore we did. We wandered by Middlebury's campus in Madrid, walked down Paseo del Recoletos and down the Paseo del Prado, over to the Puerta del Sol, and up Calle del Preciados to Callao and Gran Vía.

On Preciados, we found this:

Twist is better, but the plain yogurt here clearly has more fat in it, which makes it super-tasty.

And on Gran Vía, we found this:

    

It's a restaurant named, "Nebraska", and its slogan is: "Enjoy yourself in Nebraska!"  It makes me wonder if any Spaniard has ever actually been to Nebraska.