Day 31: Adios, Europe!

Technically, it's 11:45pm of Day 30, but I bet the clock'll tick over before I hit "Publish Post."

There's not much left to my big Europe trip left now. Other than spending several hours in the Frankfurt airport, I'm not going to experience much of anything else. My bag's packed, I've kissed my grandmother goodbye, and in less than four hours I've got to be up and ready to head out to the airport for my flight home. Right now, all I'm hoping for is that Lufthansa serves decent food on my transatlantic leg (on the flight over I had some surprisingly good Chinese style chicken) and that my flight doesn't get delayed, at least not too much. See y'all in the New World!

Day 28: McMadrid

Yesterday I committed the cardinal sin of the European traveller: I had dinner at McDonald's. In my defense, I was hungry, it was late, and it was cheap. And most importantly, I've found out that Spanish McDonald's seem to have the McRib as a permanent menu item. As far as I know, McDonald's in Canada haven't had the McRib in several years (I seem to remember a tie-in with the last Flintstones movie), and I don't think I've had one since I was in Spain five years or so ago. So what's the verdict? Is the McRib worthy of all the hype? Not really, it's actually kind of not good. It is a pork patty mechanically shaped to look like a slab of ribs, after all. But still, I can sort of see why it has the cult following, and I bet if it ever came back to American I'd have another one.