Grocery Shopping

If we want fish for dinner, we buy it that day.  There are markets on nearly every street near us, large and small.    

Everyone walks to the store.  Most people push one of these to carry their food home:

We most often go to one of two larger supermercados near where we live.  (These are much smaller than any grocery store in the US.)

Here's what the shopping cart looks like (it has wheels):

Hams are very big in this country.  Everywhere we go, hams hang in windows.  Some are quite expensive.

Seafood is excellent and plentiful. 

Wine, much of it made in Spain, is available at the grocery store.  It's both very good and inexpensive.  There is a sparkling wine called cava that is yummy.

One of Dave's office mates told him that Spain is like the California of the EU.  The fruits and vegetables are very fresh.  Most of it's grown right here.  We sometimes buy citrus with the leaves still on the fruit!

These chocolate crackers have become very popular in our apartment.  We've eaten at least five boxes.  They are SO good.  I can't figure out why exactly, they just are.