Friday, 8 February 2008

My take on Tapas.






Today we took a bus to San Sebastian. I was expecting a small beach town and was surprised what a large city San Sebastian was. When we got in we were trying to make sense of where we were and figure out how to get to the old town and beach. We ended up on a bus we thought we take us there but instead ended up driving out of town to who knows where! We road the whole loop back to where we started which was just so aggravating and put us all in crappy moods. When we got off Mau asked someone for help and we walked from there to the beach! UGHH Once we got there seeing the ocean lifted our spirits and we were happy again. We took our shoes off and put our feet in the freezing water and I think I was the only one who didn’t end up getting my pants soaked. We bumped into three other skaters, Christine, JJ, and Adam on the beach and took some High School Musical jumping pictures.

After that we fell into the same predicament of being hungry and no restaurants being opened! I was losing hope so I got a pastry to hold myself over and we finally all gave in and got tapas at a bar. I am very under whelmed by tapas though and I had heard such great things about them prior to coming. They aren’t not what I had been expecting at all; I thought at a tapas bar you would sit down and order different appetizer type dishes to share but all the places we have seen just have plates of little finger foods sitting out on the bar counter and you can come up and get some. At the place we stopped at there were many choices not for me and even this crazy squid tentacles one which freaked me out. I stuck to the potato omelets on bread which is very boring of me. We sat outside in this courtyard where there were little children playing. They amusing us so much while we ate especially this little boy trying to skateboard on the tiniest board I’ve ever seen. Oh and also on our way back to the bus station I saw a Golf police car and was so stoked about it!! Check it out!

1 comment:

Verde said...

Have you checked if you can buy the police stock Golf model in the USA?

As with most menu items, Tapas may find themselves in hands that have forgotten the potential variety and taste in these bite size adventures.

One of the first restaurants around Boston to offer Tapas (some 20 years so,) is the venerable Dali just outside of Harvard Sq....the restaurant, the owner, and the Tapas, are excellent!

I know that there are many fabulous Tapas bars in Barcelona and Madrid. The most authentic such places may have no English speakers...and in Barcelona...may prefer Catalan. In my trips to Spain, I don't recall siestas as an issue.