In Spain Breakfast was pastry, juice & coffee, lunch was light & the big meal was at nite.
Lunch was served from 1:00 - 4:00 & the resturants opened for dinner from 7:30 -800 & served till 11:00PM
Dinner was often small plates (tapas) & drink.
Wine was good & cheap
house wines were good & often $2.50/ glass!
Every dinner was eaten outside!
Acorn fed, cured ham & tenderloin with cheese
Gin & tonic a favorite drink , local beer & wine
Drinking at the Ritz
Across the stream from a museum , it nice to see how the 1% lives!
Route of Don Quixote
12 century synagogue
Salmon & ham tapas
Grilled fish
More tapas
Grilled veggies
Museum of beer
In Portugal , more seafood, Lisbon on the sea, absolutely beautiful & in mid July we had a high 70's to low 80's!
Grilled cod , seasoned salt, pepper lemon & drizzled with olive oil
Restaurant with 500 y/o paintings on the walls
Lamb stew with bread
Sidewalk Cafe's outside our hotel
The view