On our first night here, we left the hotel to look for a place for supper(most common food here is paella, tapas, gazpacho, and very thin meat cut from whole legs of pig right in front of you). As we walked down our street up ahead we saw smoke coming from a building! Yikes - what is that? A wood-fire pizza place gone bezerk? Spraying for bugs? We're sniffing the air, trying to determine what it is, and while walking under it we realize that it's cold misted air, for people eating in outdoor restaurants! What a delicious feeling when the air is 40 degrees in the shade!!!! Also, there are quite a lot of buildings with a huge overhang, so we're always looking for the 'shady side of the street'. And, in 'streets' like ours if you look up, there are actually white awnings draped between the two streets, allowing one to walk pretty much in shade, for a short while at least. It's interesting, too to buy a chocolate bar, because you notice that anything chocolate is refrigerated here. Another way to deal with the heat, is they shut down all stores between 2-5. Everyone goes home for a rest and then they're open until 9 or 10 in the evening.
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