Bar Tomate Address: Calle de Fernando El Santo, 26, 28046 Madrid Atmosphere: Warm, mood lighting. It has a ¨library¨feel with bookshelves and lamps made out of book pages, as you can see in the picture above. Trendy, but not overly fancy. I thought they had the music on too loudly, but we were seated under a […]
My Weekend in Photos
Strolling through Lavapiés on Saturday morning Saturday morning flowers in Tirso de Molina Everyone was out and about I saw a traditional Spanish wedding!! Look at those hats! Salsa // bachata // kizomba festival in Plaza de la Cebada With beers and….tomatoes My main squeeze And then I worked out for 20 whoooole minutes Bar […]
Restaurants in Madrid: El Patio del Fisgon
El Patio de Fisgon Address: Calle de Don Ramon de la Cruz, 26, 28001 Madrid Atmosphere: The restaurant was quite small, but interesting design and not too crowded. It was hot, though. Originally, they put us at a table in the center with the waiters walking back and forth, but we asked to move when […]
Say What 3
I did a few of these ¨Say What¨posts in the beginning of the year, when the things that my students would say would shock me. Say What 1 Say What 2 I´m more used to them now, but this one was too good not to write… While teaching the kids about the future tense using […]
Lately Photodump
Hi!!! I am so happy to finally be on here and I know you´re just oh so happy, as well. I have been trying to udate at various points during the week, but between a laptop that was probably one of the first models ever created that runs like it has 1000 viruses, a tablet […]
Food Lately…Eaten and Made
I have a complete back-up of IMPORTANT photos that I have been wanting to share, which have been stranded in my phone library. They have finally been freed to my gmail account and now this here lil blog. Here we go… Food I have made recently: Bread, Bread, more bread, and muffins All are best […]
Friday Five: Five Things I Miss About the U.S.- Food Edition
People sometimes ask me if I miss the United States. Actually, people ask me this a lot…especially my students. In all honesty, I don´t particularly miss the United States. I miss my family. I miss some of the people and places that make my life comfortable, but the U.S. as a whole? Not really. I […]
Restaurants in Madrid: Mama Campo
This restaurant wasn´t on my radar, but I ended up here and I´m glad I did! The food was good, the restaurant wasn´t too big or too small, and I enjoyed myself. They also have a ¨cantina¨and ¨tienda¨, but I didn´t see either. Mama Campo Address: Calle de Trafalgar, 22, 28010 Madrid Atmosphere: Clean, bright, open […]
Restaurants in Madrid: Bar Galleta
Oooooh, how I had been wanting to go to Bar Galleta ever since I saw it the first night I went to Amargo. It´s always full with no walk-ins available, so I was one happy camper to be able to check it out last week! And it did not disappoint!! Bar Galleta Address: Corredera Baja de […]
Alicante and Where I´ve Been
*Edited to add photos from my phone!!!+ Hi! How are you?! I have been MIA over here for a couple weeks since I SURGED THE MOTHERBOARD ON MY COMPUTER like a big dummie. All I wanted to do was upload some (important, obviously) pictures to my computer so I could keep all of you folks […]