The original plan was to dive the Dominican Republic. A fair and good plan for the onslaught of fallish weather. But, fate and a sudden, but completely uncontrollable urge to eat jamon serrano and anything remotely both porcine and asado, has led to a change of plans. At the end of the month, we’re off to Madrid for ten days. The plan is very, very simple: 1. eat, 2. drink, 3. revel (in Spain, in painting, in architecture, in markets), 4. sleep, 5. repeat.

Yes, there will be pictures, there will be wild pronouncements of undying love for the city’s markets, completely rational and calm assurances that I’m never returning to Northern Virginia, and Every. Single. Euro. I have will be spent on the city’s splendid eats and drink.

Any suggestions?