Showing posts with label croissants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label croissants. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Simply look around and view it


This is my new favorite pasteleria. It's in between my house and the Stanford center, a win for my stomach and a definite loss for my wallet.
You can't really appreciate it without Smell-o-internet. Why does that not exist? Get on it, Stanford.

Tomorrow morning (8:30AM! The horrors!) we're headed off to the north for wine tasting and fancy dinner and rain. (Typing that reminded me to pack my umbrella, which reminded me that I left it at work. Shoot.) We're not supposed to reveal the itinerary, but I will show you random, inconsequential things from the trip when I get back. And I will try to stay dry, I guess.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

This is some crucial advice.

If you ever find yourself in Madrid, working next to a place that sells TWO CROISSANTS FOR ONE EURO (not like they're the best croissants ever, but they're not bad and they're big and you get two of them for just one euro) obviously you'll buy them. You're not stupid. You can only eat one at work (you're only there for two hours) and you don't need to seem like a fat American.

So you eat the other one on the metro, right? WRONG. Do not eat your second croissant on the metro.
1) People just don't eat food outside of the house/restaurants here. Eating is not for the street. Starbucks is trying to get people to take coffee to go and, thank god, it's not working.
2) MadrileƱos are rubberneckers. They have no shame in staring at the strange thing that is happening to by them. They love watching fights. There was a dog on the metro today and you'd have thought it was a parade. The metro is also boring, that might have something to do with it.
3) Croissants are really crumbly.

Next thing you know, you'll have crumbs all over yourself and all 20 people in the Metro staring at you, judging you.
Wait until you get home, grasshoppers.