We had a nice, relaxing breakfast at the AC Hotel in Murcia. As I normally do, when we go for breakfast, I let the server taking care of the buffet know what room we are in and then that I need “sin gluten” items. This normally takes them to the kitchen area to get me some bread, muffins or crackers – something “bread-like” to have with breakfast. In all the AC Hotels it has been the same except Sevilla where they had the muffins and packaged cookies in a small container the 2 of the 3 breakfast cereals labeled as gluten free. So, not looking at the buffet first, I went ahead and asked the lady for some gluten free items – she gave me a big smile and lead me over to the buffet by the coffee machine and there was a whole gluten free section! It was like being back in Italy! There were chocolate pastries (to heat), Schar croissants, packaged bread, wrapped cookies, 3 gluten free cereals and wrapped muffins! Holy smokes – I was sorry we were only here one night! So I immediately cleaned the top grill in the toaster oven as I wanted to try the chocolate pastries, as I had never seen them before and they needed to be heated! I put them into the toaster for 10 minutes and boom! they were puffed and ready to eat! Very nice! There were 2 in the package – 1 to eat and 1 for a snack later in the day! Like normal, I took croissants and cookies in my purse to enjoy later for a picnic.
We then checked out a couple of hours later and were on our way to Valencia!
I took it easy on the pictures during our 2 hour drive to Valencia – I decided to focus on watching the scenery and knitting for a change! Here are the few pictures that I did take –
In the evening, we went out for dinner to Lemon Grass – a Thai restaurant on “Restaurant Row”. It was an interesting experience – they are more of a “fast food” and “tapas” restaurant – you actually build your dish instead of having a menu of all the wonderful Thai dishes that we normally get at Thai restaurants in Vancouver. So I had a shrimp vegetable dish with the not hot red pepper sauce and it was GOOD! Sort of reminded me of a sweet and sour sauce. Andrew had a chicken dish that was not sharable due to gluten in the sauce. We sat outside and had dinner – it was about 30 degrees out – a very pleasant experience except for the smokers! For more fun details of the night – see June 25th Part II description.