It was time to do our one last minute shopping at El Corte Ingles, the biggest department store in Spain. I wanted to bring home preserved seafood, i.e. squids, shrimps, mussels and tuna. I was also thinking of bringing home my favourite boquerones but all of them were cooled, refrigerated and with the hot summer temperature it’s going to become stale so I decided to stick to the canned preserved goods.
Then we went back to San Miguel Mercado for our farewell very late lunch slash snack combination. It was past 3PM already.
We ordered ‘Tinto de Verano’, a popular summer wine concoction in Spain for drinks, and some anchovies with olives and pepper, and olives with octopus for starters—5 stars out of 5, as usual. My main was prawns and mussels in paprika and onions—4 stars. I totally forgot what Blondine had.
Blondine was joking around with me that I have a blushing cheek. Sometimes I get red from alcohol, not all the time though, but at this moment, I do have a blushing cheek, haha!
Here are some more of the pictures I took in Mercade de San Miguel:
And here is one last look at Plaza Mayor… we just had to walk across this grand square one last time before we tread back to the hotel.
Then we are off to the hotel on Calle Atocha to get our bags. We are flying before 7PM so we arrive in Amsterdam not too late. Just good timing.
To our surprise, the cab driver who picked us up at the hotel was a woman. She was on her phone the whole time, she came across more a business woman than a cab driver to me, lol. It is actually rare to find a woman cab driver because this profession can be dangerous especially during the evening service. The lady cab driver of course knows the risks involved in this kind of job. She has everything covered, just look at the protection she has in her cab:
Cool huh? This is the first time I have seen a cab protection for the driver like this.
Anywho, we are now at the Barajas Madrid Airport and boarding. Bye-bye Madrid! Farewell. See you again, soon, in the future.
Travel Period: June 2011
Destination: Madrid, Spain
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