Many of you I am sure are familiar with the Dos Equis commercials revolving around the "Most Interesting Man..." deal. Well, spend a night with our family friend Alfonso and I´m sure you´d find that he puts the Dos Equis hombre to shame.
We met Alphonso at Tapas Patas, the same place I had met him four years ago. After some excellent jamon, croquetas, and something else (?) we headed over to a flamenco show where we had dinner. I was fortunate to share a cab with Alphonso on the way over. While Dos Equis Hombre may have once taught a German Shepherd to bark in Spanish, Alphonso once threw a private spur of the moment flamenco party for Paul McCartney in Cannes, just because he could. Add that to all sorts of stories regarding movie premiers (a Neil Diamond movie in Seattle?) etc etc... this guy is so very interesting. And not only interesting, but so very kind and welcoming. Certainly one of the better people out there.
After dinner and flamenco we headed back to the hotel. I figured to stay out for a bit and try and catch the Redwings game. Just saw the first period before the bar closed down at 3 but met a pair of girls on foreign exchange in Spain and went out to a club with them till late.
We woke up early the next day to go to Toledo but the train was booked so ended up going to the Reina Sofia instead. Not quite as impressive as when I saw it first, but always good to see the works of Dali, Miro, and Picasso. Guernica is still an awe-inspiring piece. Went back to the hotel after that for a long siesta.
Reluctantly woke from the siesta to go out for some tapas but I was pretty tired. I haven´t been sleeping well at all but such is traveling. Many of you will probably say I´m not sleeping well because I´ve been partying, but such is not really the case, compared to my last few weeks in Berkeley I´ve been quite tame this trip.
Today we made it Toledo and it´s a very charming old medieval city but not for an entire day. Still got a few hours till our train back to Madrid and seen just about all there is to see. But that being said, it has a very large Catedral and just being able to walk through the streets has been great. Small and very European feeling.
Hopefully will go out tonight. Have been listening to Pandora (Crookers channel, duh) and ready for a little dancing a la discoteca... vamos a ver.
1 comment:
but did Alphonso ever have an awkward moment just to see what it was like?
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