November 7: Did some laundry today, so I now have enough socks and underwear to make it through Marrakesh. I can wear pants for weeks on end and shirts day after day. I’m even willing to double up on underwear, but I have to have clean socks every day.
I had to hang my clothes out to dry. I’ve never done that before – it was actually quire enjoyable. Though I suspect that if I had to do it more than once it would be less fun.
For lunch I went to a shop that had 100 different bocadines (little sandwiches) for 1.20 euros, did my best with the Spanish menu and then headed to La Museo Reina Sofia to listen in on Sarah’s art class. Today’s lesson was on Miró. There’s something really cool about learning about art and seeing the actual painting in front of me, rather than some tiny illustration in a textbook.
On my way home I stopped in a bakery and ordered the most interesting looking thing, which turned out to be a pan dulce. It wasn’t that good, so I went to an asian supermarket and bought a prepackaged horchata, which also wasn’t that good. And so I ended up going out for pinchos (little snacks, like tapas but you pay for them), followed by a trip to a Giangrossi where we sampled about 10 different mysterious Spanish flavors of ice cream(including carrot!) before finally settling on turrón, lemon ginger, fruit and granola, mint chocolate chip, and hazelnut.
