Mark has tweaked his back so we are having a laid back and easy time in Zaragoza, made easy again due to the incredibly high temperatures. We look back at the temps of places we have been to and they have all dropped back down to mid-high 30s again, and we just seem to be chasing a heat wave around Spain. 44 degrees (celcius) seems the norm, and I am pretty certain that is around the temperature that we jump into the sauna with! Anyway, a day lazing around has been good – we did get out this morning though before it got too hot.
We went downstairs to a little café next door to have some breakfast. I love it when the waiters can work out what I am talking about – we ended up with good cuppas and toast, and I had brought some vegemite with us, so we had a very Aussie kind of breakfast. Mind you, a good cuppa to me these days is tea made with boiling water with a little milk added, not tea made entirely of hot milk. (Yes, I still have problems communicating this one – can say the same thing in every café, but you end up with something different)!
We went for a walk after brekkie, and discovered the building opposite the hotel is actually a big market. It was great wandering around looking at all the fish, meat and vegies. The first fish place we came to, a guy was filleting a big long fish. He had a filleting knife (of course), but also a big cutter that was a semi-circle about 20 cms long on the straight part. He’d roll that along the edges to cut off the crappier scraps of fish. It was amazing to watch, he was so precise. The meat stalls were selling a bit of everything, and lots of things that I did not recognize, by name or by look. There were also lots of little animals, whole animals. There were fruit stalls, and we bought some bananas (2), a couple of apples and a kilo of grapes. It was around €3.80 for all of it. There were probably around 120 stalls in the building, all fish, meat, or fruit – all with similar prices. We took our fresh fruit and headed back to the hotel for a feast!
Later that night we went tapas shopping again. We found a little bar that charged per toothpick – you choose the tapas you want, take it out of the display case, eat it and then at the end, they counted the number of toothpicks on your plate. We had some really yummy ones, some salmon on a bed of mayo and cream cheese (I think), ones with jamon and cheese and tomatoes, some more of those fabulous prawns wrapped in potato. After our fill there, we went for another street wander and ended up in a very old bar for another tapas plate. It was more traditional this time, and it was another of those plates of ‘we have no idea what we are eating’ type things. More sangria, more tapas - Food is GOOD in Zaragoza!
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