Last Saturday I joint Andrés for one of his tavern "tours".

Ann and Nicole - two of my customers from Colorado - came with me as well. We met Andrés at Plaza Mayor at about 8:30 pm. We were a large group (18 people at the begining).

We ended being a group of 14 people (Andrés told me he didn't expect so many people and he wants to keep groups smaller).

First, we went to have a vermout in an old bar besides the Plaza Mayor. On that night there was a party organised by the a radio station and the Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol were very crowded.

Then, we moved to another tavern where we had gambas al ajillo, wine and sangría.

As you probably know, we Spaniards love to change from one place to another so we moved again to have patatas bravas and Spanish omelette with bravas sauce (btw, they have patented the recipe of the sauce at that bar).

By that time everyone was full up, but Andrés took us to an old tavern near Tirso de Molina were we have wine and we tried torrijas (which I considered unusual in a bar).

Then, we went a "El Son", a Salsa club (I think it's one of Andrés' favourite places). I had to wake up early the following day so I didn't enter that disco. But Ann and Nicole told me they had a great time and Andrés even tried to teach them how to dance merengue.

Although there were some Spaniards, the "official" language of the tour is English so we were all talking in English. Most of the people were from the US and they were really nice. We had a great time and I think so they had the rest of the people.

I'll tell Ann and Nicole to post their comments on Andrés' tours here.

Regards,

Antonio

PS: BTW, there were some people at the tour who followed my posts here. They seemed very happy to meet me!. I guess I'm becoming famous !!

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