MADRID- discovery travel and living freaks such as ourselves paid a visit to the Convento de Corpus Christi. home to the Las Carboneras, a small group of nuns who make and sell sweet biscuits and cakes in a tiny shop, hidden from public view. after searching high and low for the hidden outlet, we finally found the doorbell, thanks to a gypsy woman who begged by the streets.
it was such a clandestine affair, first we had to ring the doorbell to gain entrance, then our orders were placed through a grille with much difficulty (due to our inability to point at pictures) and we collected our cookies through a small revolving window. we never saw the nuns and this is so to protect them from the outside world. our bag of Galletes was rich in lemon-buttery-goodness and though we gave close to half of it away to the gypsy woman, we still had so much to indulge in. a must-visit in madrid!
peter pan: the Madrid: most spaniards probably have cavity problems and they have dozens and dozens of bakeries and pastesseries to prove it. peter pan is one of them and lucky for us, it was right at our hostel's doorsteps. 
the copious spread of tantalizing scrummilicious treats easily warmed its way into our hearts and expanding waistlines.. but be warned by the photograhped 'miel'- bread soaked in honey, two bites of it was enough to make the ends of my hair stand in alert of saccharine-overload .. so unless you were a crazy honeybee in your previous life, you might want to give this a miss.. haha..bottom left, ensaimada: this doughy pastry is guilty of over-simplicity.. no filling, no toppings, no fancy dandy candy-coating.. but it was a WINNER.. it actually made me realise i like all that doughy stuff, compared to puff pastry.
bottom right, empanada: another popular snack with the spaniards, this pastry is usually stuffed (i had tuna) with filling and baked before serving.. mmmm... how i love the crumbly ends..
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