Tapapies

On Thursday night a small group of us went to an area in Madrid called Lavapies for some tapas and a few beers. We started off at the bottom of Calle Argumosa and wandered up stopping at various places along the way. Lavapies has been holding an international food festival called Tapapies since 17th October - it's described as being an multicultural tapas route (ruta multicultural de la tapa) and it's a great place to spend a few hours trying different foods, having a drink and catching up.

There are apparently 75 restaurants/bars participating in the festival, each offering a different tapa and last night I had 4 tapas and 3 cañas all for 7 euros!

All participating bars have this flag outside and on the flag is a photo of the tapas offered, making it easy to decide where you want to stop for a while:

I didn't actually get many photos last night as I was too busy ramming delicious food and drink into my mouth and coming to the realisation that I have been saying "Carrefour" wrong all this time (never felt so English as when my French friend pointed out its not pronounced "carry-four" but "Cairefoh" - my whole life has been a rather embarrassing lie)

However, I think we may possibly be returning there tonight (Saturday) for some food and drinks before heading to a club to celebrate my friends birthday, so fear not, you may get to see many riveting photos of my food yet!

Today I managed to tackle quite a few things on my to-do list of doom, and tonight I stayed in to try and get lots of work done and have managed to get through a fairly decent amount, but shall save the details for tomorrow and head to bed as I've just realised how late it is! It may be past midnight, but as I haven't slept yet I would count this as the second post in 2 days, and so on Thursday I bought myself this absolute Zara BEAUT in anticipation of my achievement....

In my defence Madrid is pretty rainy right now. And getting rather chilly. And I have absolutely no form of a coat here whatsoever. And also, I really wanted it. Good enough excuse right? 

Buenas Noches!