Thursday, 12 April 2007

travel blog: timings

Normally it'll be the jet lag that gets to you making you feel totally on adifferent wavelength from those around you. In madrid its meal lag.

After days of good tapas we decided to have a good full meal. Not a problem madrid is full of good resturants. However we made the mistake of going for dinner at dinner time, about half six.

We may as well have been asking the waiters for deep fried elephant foreskin.

"we dont start serving dinner till 8," was the universal reply," would you like some tapas instead?"

Hemmingway said Madrillenos dont go to bed until they have 'killed the night'. I was surprised to find it was true. Not only for food but also they wouldnt dream of going to bed before dawn.

We dont expect such a similar culture to ours to have such different customs when it comes to timings to eat and sleep.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dude, you started a blog. Why wasn't I told? Consider yourself RSSified, beyotch, and enjoy Madrid.

Anonymous said...

Thanks mate,

I thought I´d actually write for a couple of months before pointing people to it. To make sure there was actually stuff worth reading!

having fun with it I must say it much easier to write a few lines than an entire script in one go.

anyways hope alls well and we´ll be seing you in a bit.

peaceout homeslice.

:)

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