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$125 per night and I'ld have fish

Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona - 6 nights from $775. I'd have a pork empanada I think. I'm such a picky eater.

$769 Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona. I would have pollo con arroz for dinner and flan for dessert.

Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona
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For $769

I would probably try a little bit of everything! Starting off with some authentic pizza and/or pasta!

I, too, would choose $769 Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona. I also would like to have pollo con arroz for dinner and flan for dessert.

You can find me on the 9-day Canary Islands/Morocco balcony sail for $1,329. Since Barcelona is one of the ports of call. I would dine on a traditional dish, from the region by ordering a 'menú del dia' día', which includes an appetizer, bread, a main dish, dessert, and coffee. And the main dish of course would be Caldereta de langosta ( Lobster Stew)

I'd choose the Madrid and Barcelona trip.

I lived in Madrid for several years and I love that city! It is better than Barcelona, and I wonder why so many who travel to Spain cjhoose Barcelona instead of Madrid. Barcelona is the capital of Catalunya, a different language and culture from true Spain, Castilla. Catalunya has been a separate country in the past and there re those who aspire to independence again.

I would still feel totally at home in Madrid.

I'm disappointed that the foods listed for Barcelona are pan-Spanish ones rather than the truly Catalan/Barcelona foods. Barcelona has a separate cuisine that is wonderful in its own right!

In Madrid, my first food would be tapas at Casa Labra on Preciados, the famous bacalao. My first dinner would be a good Madrid cocido. True home cooking/comfort food! Then I'd do the tapas crawl from Sol to Santa Ana and sample all my old favorites again, tortilla at Molino Blanco with a jarra of sangria, prawns at EL Abuelo...

In Barcelona I'd go for truly Catalan food. A favorite snack is pan con tomate topped with butifarra (a kind of cured sausage in the same family as the Castillian chorizo). They cut open lengthwise a baguette and then take 1/2 raw tomato and rub the cut side vigorously onto the bread. You can eat it that way or with a sandwich filling such as butifarra, fried squid rings, etc. My first dinner in Barcelona would definitely be the grand local treat, zarzuela de mariscos, a gloriously spicy shellfish stew somewhat reminiscent of the better known dish in Provence. Catalunya has a delectable thick garlic sauce to dollop onto the zarzuela.

Of course, at subsequent meals I'd have tortilla, empanada, paella, and flan for dessert! Yum! I'd long to add time for a trip to the opposite side of the country, to Galicia, to eat the empanada in its homeland! Especially a seafood empanada, together with a bit of queso de teta and the incredible local wines of Galicia.

Head south down th coast from Barcelona towards Valencia and you can take care to eat a small enough dinner to have room left for a "pijama", a plate with flan in the center surrounded by a banana sliced lengthwise, ice cream and whipped cream! Eat the local paella that focuses not on seafood but on rabbit, snails and other small garden creatures. Yum!

Don't think that all gazpacho is the tomatoes and peppers soup best known in the US. A classic recipe that precedes the arrival of New World vegetables in Spain is based on ground almonds; another is based on asparagus. Gazpacho goes all the way back to the Roman legions, after all.

Spain! Go there and you will fall in love with it!

I would have to say that the $769 Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona
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And as for the foods? Somethings i have always wanted to try are:
Pa amb tomàquet
Take a nice, thick slice of toasted rustic bread, rub some garlic and fresh tomato on top, drizzle a generous amount of olive oil to boot and add a pinch of salt. There you have it, pan amb tomàquet, a Catalan staple and breakfast favorite.

Sarsuela
Sarsuela is a seafood medley - it's the variety show of Catalan food. It can contain any combination of different types of white fish, prawns, shrimp, squid, mussels, clams, crayfish or lobster. All of these ingredients are combined in a casserole with olive oil, tomato, lemon, paprika, white wine, sherry and other spices. Yum.

Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona. And I'd be trying the best of EVERYTHING!!!!

The last time I was in Barcelona was on a backpacker's budget. This time, I'd love to do the AOL trip "Madrid and Barcelona by Air from $775." Best of all, it leaves from Chicago: no add on airfare for me! I would like to make a side trip to Bilbao (not too far away) to see Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum. I love art, and this is a must see. Also by visiting Madrid, I could make a stop at the Prado.

As for my first meal, I think I'd just like an evening of tapas...so I wouldn't have to choose just one dish. Among my favorites are the seafood ones; strangely enough, I love the crispy fried sardines. Wash it down with a nice Roja or glass of port, and I'll know I'm there.

$769 Best of Spain vacation to Madrid, Barcelona
It would have to be bread and Pizza:)

I'm going...as soon as I can cash in my Enron stocks

Best of Spain vacation to Madrid - Artstic treasures of spain :)
An assortment of tapas - to taste a wide variety of foods :)

The Best of Spain vacation package to Madrid and Barcelona for $769.00 would an ideal way to celebrate the end of my arduous cancer treatment which ends next week on October 14. My oncologist has chided my husband, Gary and myself to go on a trip of a lifetime as my recent tests have shown no more cancer anywhere!!!

So, what better place to travel but to a country where like Spain where we could finally speak the language that we both studied in high school Well, we may have to brush up on our skills since we've been out of school for a while.

We both are interested in history and art so exploring the legendary museum, The Prado, in Madrid would be such an education. Barcelona has it's array of delights as well.

My mouth is watering for paella with saffron rice as I write this comment so I guarantee you that would surely be the first meal we'd eat in the cosmopolitan cities. But, the gazpacho soup would be an appetite and perhaps I could get pointers as mine always tastes so bland.

A strong cup of coffee will have to accompany the caramel flan as it is a perfect ending to a perfect meal.

Madrid and Barcelona? Wow!

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I think I would like to go to Pescadors for dinner.
I would have some local fresh "catch of the day" & some tapas.
It would be nice to enjoy Madrid, exploring the local & less touristy areas as much as possible.

Tina, you spell it with a z, not an s: zaruezla!

Clauadia, best wishe son the end of your chemo! I wish you a cure!

Do you put a clove of garlic in your gazpcho, and some cumin? Both are esdential to the flavor of Spain! See my article here:

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12-Day Eastern Mediterranean Barcelona Round-trip WITHOUT Keith. He snores very loudly all night. In the small cabins on the ship, I'd never sleep. I'd go with my sister Laurie, instead. Once we got to Barcelona and are off the ship, I'd try deep-fried Andalusian-style (breaded and fried) cuttlefish because I've never had this and hope I don't spend the rest of the cruise in the bathroom.

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my 1st meal would be:

Pa amb tomàquet
and a Catalan Cuisine

769 best of spain tour. I would have the tappas meal, because i like alittle bit of everything. Tapas are delicious.

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