Saúl E. Mendez: from dressing with class to eating with class

Saúl E. Mendez

This chain started in 1953 as men cloth store… how it adds the restaurant and cafeteria concept to that? Well, there´s not exactly an explanation but it happened in 1998 and just with small stands selling crêpes and European style hot beverages, it was so successful so they decided to work more deep in that way. They keep on the line of giving European style food (that doesn´t mean to follow up extremely the European customs, they adapt the food style to Guatemalan´s customs and preferences) and they really created something nice, different and worth to try! :D

Here an example of what you can find at their menu for breakfast:

Walking in... Madrid, Spain: Xmas decoration El Corte Inglés Nuevos Ministerios

And here is the outside Xmas decoration of El Corte Inglés Nuevos Ministerios:



simple but nice! :)

Walking in… Madrid, Spain: Xmas decoration El Corte Inglés Serrano

Yes, I know, a bit late for placing this post! But it´s still something nice to share, isn´t it? ;)

So, here you have! This was how El Corte Inglés Serrano decorated the outside on Xmas 2009:

Scrabble Tourney in Leon: Scrabble Girona celebrating

As I mentioned, the Scrabble Tourney in Leon was full with great moments (and not only at the tourney itself). :D

My club, Scrabble Girona, had a lot of reasons why to celebrate: Patxi winner of the classic but also the duplicate modes. Ivette got the third place and Susanna got the first place of the C group. That´s how we celebrate it! :D



After the tourney Juan Carlos Ayala took us to eat a delicious stew from Leon! I hardly recommend it, it´s at the restaurant Sorrento. Being there, Santi told us the story of the spaceship that Spain sent to the moon:



I´m afraid the relation is just in Spanish.

Oh yes! I love the way we started the year! :D

New Year´s Eve in Leon: final part

On January first we awake when we wanted. We had for breakfast the great tiramisu done by Pochola.

For lunch Montse made her delicious Escudella, she even had the nice detail of doing it with alphabet soup! :D Pochola done a magnific Fillet Wellington and also leftovers of the dinner. (We had turkey for the whole weekend!).

After lunching, David, Susanna, Curro and I went to walk a bit around Leon´s City Center, the rest stayed at home playing.

The day before David and Susanna had a “tour” with their friend at the City Center as well, so they were our guides! :P here part of the beauties we saw in our tour:



Royal Collegiate Church of St Isidore of Seville, León:





The Cathedral:



We went to drink something to warm us into the pub "Big John´s Jazz Club" that has the specialty of playing just jazz music of the 40´s to the 70´s.




After that we continue with our tour:

The Bethelem:



Where we also did the “asking for a wish ritual”







The Leon´s raised-relief map:



We were a while watching the audiovisual presentation that Caja de España played at Botines, a Gaudi house:







We went trough the Xmas market and turned back to the flat… where we found Montse, Gloria, Pochola and Topo locked in! And not… it wasn´t a punishment due the night before! (or well, I really don´t know… you see, the last one locking the door was Patxi!) ;P He said the point was that we should lock the door or it opens so easily, so, when he went out, he just forgot nobody of them had a key as well! :D

We played a bit, take the dinner (a salad done with the leftovers, a great Spanish omelet done by Patxi and pantumaca done a bit by all of us) some of us went to sleep a bit early… we had a tourney the next day!