Final Spain post- the spider

In a previous post I wrote about how I stayed in La Caseria, a mini-castle in the Spanish countryside. Well, on my last night there, I found a spider the size of my palm just sitting on the wall. This was because there were no window panes. just open rectangles, allowing many different bugs to come crawling in.

Since my host-sister was for some reason sleeping somewhere else for some reason, and all who was left on my side of the mini-castle were the grandparents who were already asleep across the hall and it was late, I didn't know what to do. It was not a bad thing enough that I thought I should go tell someone. I did not want to swat it away with something because I was scared it was going to scuttle off somewhere and I would not find it, which would be even worse. While I do not really have a fear of spiders, this was pushing the envelope. I did a last resort....and slept in the bathroom in the bathtub.

[caption id="attachment_98" align="alignnone" width="300"]Home sweet home[/caption]

There was a window there but it had shutters, so I was safe. While others thought I just should have gone to bed in the bed anyway, I decided that although it was weird, and something people probably don't do, I slept much better in the bathtub with the knowledge that a large hairy spider was not going to crawl on my face.

Spanish Food Post #4: Pizza!

(Sorry I haven't posted in forever, but now I am :) )

As my blog is titled, I associate pizza with traveling. I love both so why shouldn't be together? I tried pizza in Spain, and no this cannot be generalized in any shape or form, this pizza was from a little place in a little town.

We bought four different flavors; cheese, sausage, tuna, and a weird cream sauce one that everyone agreed tasted strange. They were small, and I tried each one, but overall the verdict was: not good. It was very greasy, droopy, flavor combinations did not go together, and no one really wanted to eat it. The one I could say that was okay was tuna, one, you would think the cheese but they added something that did not go with it.                     (As you can see I am not a fan of olives as seen on the top left)

This is the cheese pizza, I forgot to say it came with olives, and the cheese is cooked quite nicely, it has little bubbles on top, but the flavors were all just wrong. Whatever cheese blend and sauce they put together it did not work at all, and the family then decided to never go there again. All in all not the best pizza experience, but hey, their paella makes up for it a hundred times over.