The last day of the adventure! After drinks at the cafe on the corner, we went and visited a pet shop down the street. Terry was amused by all the Halloween themed dog toys, and requested that I take a picture, so here it is:

We then went for the main meal of the day to Casa Carola, a most interesting restaurant. It's the only restaurant I've ever been to that comes with an instruction manual:

The text says "We wanted to make this manual so that your experience at Casa Carola is as satisfactory as possible. Below we advise you and we anticipate solving some of the most frequent doubts that our clients usually ask us."

It's a prix fixe restaurant, and the food is served family style - that is, they bring big platters of food and set them on the table, and everyone helps themselves. The meal started off with champagne and red wine, followed by an appetizer of croquetas, or croquettes. Then there was soup, brought to the table in a large tureen:

Now, before I go any further, let me say a word about those bibs. In the instructions, it says that everyone should wear a bib. In fact, they mentioned the bib curse - that is, anyone who refuses to wear a bib is cursed to get food on their shirt! I took that as a challenge. I refused to wear the bib, and I'm proud to say I left the restaurant with a clean shirt! (By the way, I looked around and saw one or two other diners without bibs.)

Anyway, to continue with the meal... After they brought the soup, they brought a large plate of garbanzo beans, to put in the soup. This was followed by a platter of vegetables - carrots and potatoes, and others that I don't remember. These also could go in the soup, or be eaten by themselves. And then came a huge platter of meats - ham, of course, and also chicken and beef. If you're still hungry when you leave that place, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Afterwards, we went back the place we went the previous day, and it was open this time, so the dogs had a chance to run and play... except they didn't run and play, they just roamed around sniffing everything. I took this panoramic picture of the view:

While we were there, we saw the Quinta del Duque del Arco:

...which, according to Wikipedia, is "an example of the country houses that some aristocrats of the 17th and 18th centuries used to retire on the outskirts of Madrid."

The house is accompanied by a garden. Again, this is a panoramic view:

The problem with the panoramic feature of iPhone cameras is that they introduce a curvature in the picture. In reality, the garden is in a straight line.

On the way out, I took this picture of a display comparing a contemporary plan of the grounds with one from 1745:

And that was it for the day. We went back home and started packing.

Nothing much to say about this day, except that it was a long one. Our flight had a layover in Charlotte, North Carolina, where we ate a quick dinner, and I took this one last picture, of an intersting sculpture hanging over the food court: