Spain’s coming up in May and DH (Darling Husband) went to a Spain seminar put on by his company. For those of you who haven’t heard from me bragging and rubbing it in… DH won a trip to SPAIN from his company!! I KNOW!! It’s completely unbelievable and is one of those trips that would NEVER happen if it were not FREE!
Anyway… he brought home a book, the Frommer’s Spain 2009! I immediately went into research mode.
We are flying from here to Germany, in FIRST class with a slight layover. Enough to grab our bags, check in with customs, get my STAMP! and then on to the next flight. I actually wish we were staying longer, this is where my people are from…
Then we land in Marbella, Spain. When I was looking through the book, the first heading is “Where to Stay” and has a subtitle of “Very Expensive”. The Marbella Club is the first listing and happens to be where we are staying!!! Quote- “This is the grande dame of all Costa Del Sol resorts. … the snobbish Marbella Club reigned almost without equal as the exclusive hangout of aristocrats and tycoons.” I have never!!!
Here’s the situation in Spain as far as I can tell… you wake up late, go have a really strong coffee and some Danish… then go take a nap… lunch isn’t until 1:30 or 2:00. This is the big meal. You eat, drink lots of wine, and then you go take a nap. Dinner is not until 9:30 or 10:00 at night. Instead of taking another nap you are free to sit in a Tapas bar eating appetizers and drinking more WINE!, but you have to realize the bars and fun doesn’t start until midnight or 1:00 AM! So, basically you sit in a bar from 2:00 until midnight drinking wine and eating, so when the bar opens, you’re rip roaring to go!! I haven’t really figured out yet, when they work?…
After five days, a couple of group tours, a Spa Day, a walk across some bridge into MOROCCO! and a traditional Spanish Lunch at Puente Romano, we are headed off in a teeny tiny plane to Barcelona. I checked the book… Our hotel, listed again under “very expensive” Hotel Arts, the only beachfront address in Barcelona. It’s one of Barcelona’s only skyscrapers. The upper floors are the “private condominiums of some of the country’s most gossiped about aristocrats and financiers”. Holy Snickers!!
The last, most important bit of information is that Barcelona has the BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE IN THE WORLD! Bubo & bubo bars, Master patissier Carles Mampel won the Lyon Press Award for the best chocolate cake in 2005 and hasn’t changed the recipe since. Guess where I’m going after my second nap???
All I can say is, Wow! I love my husband’s job! Sometimes it really sucks, he’s gone a lot and I miss him, but the WORLD BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE, please! That’ll make it all worthwhile!
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