Jour 98 - "No! You Can't Have Paella! :))"

November 26th, Saturday

So sorry I wasn't able to take a picture of our hostel but the place was pretty awesome! Clean :) And it's just around 11EUR per night! :D

At the train...

Our first stop was to go to Retiro Park. 

But before the park, we saw a book flea market so we passed by here first. 

Aaaw cute! Little prince in Spanish!

HAHAHAHA. Eeew

The weather was perfect! It was really nice strolling around the park :) 

The fasyon people :))

We went inside Palacio de Cristal.

OMG. Absolutely stunning! Doesn't it look like heaven? :P

We also saw Monument to Alfonso XII. 

Kwi and crazy antics :))

We passed by a convenient store and saw this! :)) Why hello Filipinos!

After this, we went to Gran Via and start a grand shopping. Er. My wallet started to die a slow death. Lefties. Pull and Bear. Zara. Bershka. You name it. Oh gosh. Shopping in Spain is really amazingly cheaper compared to the other EU countries. 

For our late lunch, we ate in this place. I saw this in a blog and they mentioned that the food here is pretty good and the prices are not bad.

We were the first ones to enter the restaurant because we were 30 minutes too early before the store opened :))

Renan ordered this with his burger :)

Kwi and I split two dishes - this one is Argentinian steak.

And this one is boneless suckling pig or cuchinillo <3

We went back to Gran Via to continue our shopping galore. And by 18:00, my wallet officially died. It was a very bloody death for it had to go through so many stores! :))

Aira had an important game to watch! Yes, she's the biggest football fan out of the group. 

For dinner, we wanted to check out the best hidden bar in Madrid. Well, that's according to the blog I saw in the internet. It's so secret that you'd have to ring the doorbell in order to get inside :))

We were lucky to get a seat because we got there early. After a couple of minutes, a lot more people came in :P This restaurant bar is where the locals go. I didn't see any sight of foreigners! I wasn't really hungry so I just got paella and beer. I still prefer the paella in Manila.

Renan was so funny! He didn't know that he ordered two types of potato dishes! :)) He got patatas bravas and 

huevos espanyol (an omelet with potatoes inside) :P

The guy beside Kwi was the waiter that served us! Haha. It seemed like he was flirting with Kwi! Hihi. When Kwi saw my paella, she wanted to order as well. But the waiter told Kwi that she can't have paella :)))) Apparently, the paella that I ate was free! :))

Kwi's lamb took forever! But it was good :)

xx