Vintage Bacon

The wine here in Spain is great, and pretty inexpensive. I just had a glass in an interesting bar down the street from my hostel. The place looked at least 200 years old, and the walls were covered with decorative, hand-painted blue and white tiles. When I ordered the wine from the distinguished-looking man behind the bar, he wrote my bill in chalk on the wood bar in front of me.

And as soon as he had done that, he went back to what he was doing before, which was slicing thin layers of meat off of the two-foot long, still-hooved leg of a pig. Ah, the duties required of a sommelier-butcher-barman in today's Spain.....