Cuenca!

Stuffed red pepper with a fried quail egg and iceburg lettuce with lots of olive oil

Same as before but grilled octopus, Chipirones, with the same accoutrements..

Hard boiled eggs, peppers, and olives in olive oil and vinagre.

Jamon Serrano with a fried calabaza

Gazpacho delicioso!

Step over reptile lounge, or whatever you are called. At the Taberna el Botijo Bocadillos, you order a glass of wine, it's made here, and you get a plate of something. The tapas increase in interestingness the drunker you get. I got to 4. I wanted to see what 5 was and if I could get to 10. Russian caviar? Sexualized favorz? I dunno... The Solomillo was dEELICIOuS!!!! not pictured.

Pimpinela!

Potatoes in all forms are delicious, obviously. Pop music is bad in most places, The kindness of strangers is pivotal, coffee in Madrid is never bad, even the garbage men are well dressed, a crowd means anything, Nene Cherry was 15 years ahead of her game. Pimpinela was and apparently is still amazing.

Arte en el Retiro, Miralda and Stockholder

tongue map

diagrammatical food art!

A dress for lady liberty?

Jessica Stockholder in the best venue for sculpture ever, a glass house.

A good plan for architecture.

Parque El Retiro

Horchata!

A Madrid squirrel

Gato en el Jardin

Le Petit Bistro

My first real meal in Madrid was French. It was delicious and expensive, I couldn't help myself.

30 €

Outside

Tapenade on toasts

Salmon tartare

Chocolate fondant cake with caramel ice cream

Coffee and two glasses of Sardonal Rioja, not pictured.

Hotlanta, Outside of the High Museum.

Tap Atlanta on Peachtree Street near Art Center.

The cold and miserable airport.