Window shopping

Wednesday was a bit of a bust. I went to the train station to try to get tickets for Friday. The ticket machine was broken so I had to deal with a person, and he was not helpful. People here are rather reserved, and do not go out of their way to help. You have to be very persistent to get exactly what you want. I decided to go shopping instead. I slogged over to Hipercor - imagine a Nordstrom the size of a football field, with a Target on the lower level, also the size of a football field. I just wandered around for hours. When I visit a new place, I like to go to a grocery store. It's always so interesting to see what people eat and drink - some things surprisingly familiar, others new and strange. In the evening we went back to the train station, and a different, very nice man got us all set with tickets. Then we went to the center and thought hey, let's go into this cathedral we've been walking past all week. However it was 4 euros to enter so we said forget it. Ahmed was then assaulted by a gypsy, who tried to hand each of us some rosemary. I wouldn't touch it but Ahmed took it, so she tried to read his hand. It was pretty lame - you have a great love! Wink wink. You are strong! Wink wink. You have a big heart! Wink wink. We just kept saying Don't understand, sorry. Then she asked for money and Ahmed said no. She wasn't too unpleasant about it, thank god.

We had a nice dinner in the square near the church. Everything was good except my unfortunate soup - cold tomato cream with hard boiled eggs in it. Then the long walk back to the hotel and another day was done.