El Rastro

Sunday we took Heather and Clarice to the Rastro. It is a big flea market every Sunday in the Latina neighborhood of Madrid. It is basically like one huge garage sale with tons of booths selling the most random things you can imagine from t-shirts to souvenirs, antiques to pet supplies, rubber to gas masks.

We took them on our usual tour and then left at our usual turn off to go to our first bar we take all our tourists. It is a bull fighting- theme bar that is over 150 years old. They have bull heads from the 1900's on the wall and old liquor bottles line the old fashioned wood bar. Pablo ordered a racion of snails to freak out the Americans and to make it a complete spanish bar experience.

Later that night my aunt and cousin made it up to Las Tablas on the train (all by themselves) for dinner at our house so they could see where we live and our neighborhood. We cooked traditional spanish tapas, had lots of wine and their first taste of sidra.

Rastro

Snails

Heather being brave and trying

Taberna de Antonio Sanchez

Chupitos after dinner at our house

Sending them back on the train