Neither of us is a big proponent of posting pictures of food on Facebook and Instagram, but food is such a big part of life in Spain, that we don’t feel right leaving the country without writing about it. So screw it; here’s a post about food.
Europe
Bull run of San Sebastian de los Reyes
Let me start off by saying that we did not run with the bulls. Though, in hindsight I wish we had.
San Sebastián de los Reyes is a suburb of Madrid that hosts a weeklong bullfighting festival in August. While Pamplona holds the more famous running of the bulls, bull running also takes place in San Sebastián de los Reyes.
La Tomatina!!!
That’s it. The rest of our trip is downhill from here. La Tomatina was definitely the highlight of our trip (year? life?), and I can’t see how anything else will come close to providing me so much joy.
Ok, what am I talking about? La Tomatina is the biggest food fight in the world. Each year, on the last Wednesday of August, 20,000 people pack into the small town of Bunol (population 9,000) and throw tomatoes at each other for an hour.
Climbing the Rock of Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a strange place. Take southern Spain, northern Africa, and England, and smash them all together on a rock 2.6 square miles. Literally, one minute we are in Spain, using Euros, everyone speaking Spanish, and the next, we cross through immigration, and everyone is speaking English with a British accent, and using pounds to purchase items like Cadbury and beans on toast. 
Gibraltar on a budget
Generally, when you’re speaking in British pounds, the term “budget” isn’t applicable. But I think we managed to do Gibraltar affordably. Since I had such a hard time finding any info about it before we went, I wanted to put our itinerary and costs down in case anyone planning on going to Gibraltar stumbles across this.
La Feria di Malaga
If Barcelona didn’t make us feel old, Malaga did. We happened to be in this southern Spanish town, which is the second oldest city in Spain, for the Feria of Malaga.