First tapas of 2022
I should have mentioned that of course, we had plenty of tapas until this trip to Spain, but I like to capture a diary of our experiences and of course, the first tapas after arrival in this town have to be captured. We are lucky to have a bunch of tapa bars just across the street and therefore we didn't have to walk far to find a place to enjoy our first tapas.
I admit that I found it very difficult to find out what kind of tapas they offered as a lot of the things written on the card were totally new to me and where I could discover the usual "sardinas" for example, I found it harder to even understand 50% of most of the other things written on there. It may have been the handwriting or maybe my rusty Spanish, which by the way, turned out not to be that rusty as so far I've managed just fine ordering anything, yay!
After ordering our drinks
It was time to select our tapas and my boyfriend went for the white shrimp (I think they aren't gambas but I'm not sure lol), while my daughter and I went for a simple fries with some meat. I have to admit it was not nice at all and worth the money, the second tapa we decided to try the sardines again, I remember really hating them the last time we lived in Spain, but I told myself that I'd try everything (or at least as much as possible) this time, even olives. And I really despise those too lol. I can tell you, the sardines were not nice at all, my boyfriend also didn't like them so my guess is that this is just a cheap and not that great tapa bar. So far for our first tapa experience of the year, lol.
It got better
While these weren't tasteful at all, their neighbors apparently serve great tapas which we tried the next day. I was surprised to find out that we have to pay for each tapa, if we'd known this, we would have stuck to only 1 tapa and not even ordered another round. maybe that was more a thing in the Granada area or the other way around, paying for them is more something from this area? Or who knows, maybe it changed over the past years, maybe 
Either way, it's fine by me, this way I will stick to one tapa instead of picking another one if I'm not hungry anyway. When it's free, the Dutch in me comes to the surface lol.
If you live in Spain, how is this in your area? Free tapas, paid tapas? Both? Please let me know in a comment!
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