Very nice breakfast which included scrambled eggs, the first we've seen on the trip. As usual we ate like pigs: croissants, baguettes, butter, jam, yogurt, fruit, coffee, juice, ham and cheese, and now add in the eggs. Yikes. I think we're actually gaining weight. We usually end up with a big lunch too, and then the great dinners late at night. Plus we're always having dessert cause they sound so good; usually at lunch and dinner; we never do that at home.
So we came up with a plan: we decided to try to have only two big meals per day, and only one desert. Thus if we had a big breakfast, and a big lunch with dessert, then the goal is to have a very light dinner. Unfortunately we haven't actually been successful implementing this plan. I get to the dinner, and I get all excited and talk April into a few more items, while we're pounding the bread and olive oil, and before we know it it's 10:30 and we're finishing our second choc dessert of the day.
Like tonite, first I had to talk April into even going to dinner, she was laying in bed tired, and at first claimed she didn't want to eat at all. Then she wanted me to go get a pizza to-go and we'd eat in the room. But I kept working it (whining?), claimed it was my last chance for great paella, how the restaurant was #2 on tripadvisor, etc, etc. And finally she caved, she claimed she'd hear about it for the rest of the trip if we had skipped, but once we were there we split a large salad, then had a two-person bowl of zarzuela (catalan seafood stew) two baskets of bread, and then two desserts. April had a lemon curd thing with lemon ice cream, and I had this awesome plate of frozen yogurt on a bed of tomato jam and basil oil. Stunningly refreshing. Didn't seem like the flavors would merge well but they did.
And that was after a fantastic lunch at a Lebanese restaurant, where we had taboule, dolmades, baba ganouj, and a red pepper spread, and lots of Syrian bread. Didn't have dessert at lunch though. Minor victory. We ate a late lunch and we chatted with the owner for a long time, met his two little girls. He was a bit of a renaissance man, artist, composer, inventor, cook, etc. Claimed he had houses in lebanon, algeria, cyprus, france and here in cadaques. Interesting guy but talked too much about himself. Can't learn anything if you spend your whole time talking.
To build up these appetites, we had done a nice hike in the morning, not too long, maybe 4 miles total, but interesting walking along the seashore. Got lost once, had to bushwhack thru the scrub to get back on an old trail that followed along cliffs down to the village. Tried to visit Dali's house but you needed a reservation; it's so small they only allow like 12 people in every 30 minutes.
We caught up on our wash, btw, we wash all our stuff by hand. April sewed a few items. I caught up on the blog. We bought a new map, planned our next few days. We'll probably cross over into France for one day on the coast road if it's not too busy and then come back to Spain over the Col de Banyuls. And we read and had a nice easy day.
Can't wait for breakfast tomorrow! And we start out with a 5K uphill, it's going to be a killer because we won't have had any time to warmup our legs.
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Loving your stories peter!! I love the latest entry about all the food and exactly what you two ate, how fun! Keep writing....
ReplyDeleteCan't begin to describe how pleased Jayne and I were to hear thar the flavors did in fact merge on Peter's dessert! How brilliant!
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