SOMM Laguna

A lot has happened since my last post. We left Segovia and headed for Burgos for a one night stay. Once again, parking the Tesla was nerve racking. Burgos was interesting and offered some nice choices for food. Wine was very inexpensive at €2.50 – €5 a glass, most were actually pretty good. The dish below is called Fabada. It’s a traditional Spanish dish with Faba beans, chucks of pork belly, chorizo, and blood sausage. Yes, Annie ate everything except the blood sausage. We paired it with a very nice Rueda blend of Tempranillo (they call it Tinto Fino locally), Cabernet and Merlot

The next day we headed for Vitoria-Gasteiz. If you are taking notes, we stayed at an AC Marriott in the center of town, with a king bed for $150/night. We stayed in Vitoria for 3 nights and used it as a base for day trips. The city itself is not overly interesting but we used it so a jumping off point to Bilbao.

The featured visit for Bilbao was the Guggenheim. The flower dog sculpture was done Jeff Koons who also created this

A lot of people we talked to said the Bilbao had nothing to offer other than the museum. We would disagree, the city was full of parks, walking trails along the river and some great food.

Bellies full we returned to Vitoria where I got to watch NewZealand play Ireland in the Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals. It was at an Irish pub and not a single person there spoke English (or Irish). The locals crowded the place and were cheering the Lads but to no avail the Haka gods smiled on the All Blacks.

The next morning we packed up and headed for Zaragoza. As we were driving, we thought about the Tesla, the parking and the recharging and made the decision to dump the Tesla at the Zaragoza airport for a tiny little mini Jeep. The nice folks at Hertz said they didn’t get a lot of Tesla’s at that location which is likely a good thing as they couldn’t figure out how to unlock the doors. BTW, thank goodness we did make the switch as the parking lot in Zaragoza had another spiraling down ramp and we won’t have made it. With the little Jeep it was a breeze. More from Zaragoza soon.