Siesta!

You gotta love Spain and her siestas. Spain is not the only country to do this, but it could be the longest. Germany has her 2-hour lunches, and Italy has siestas as well, but Spain shuts down from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Now, I know that it can get hot there, but to work 6-hour days is...flabbergasting.

One time, we went to a restaurant near dinner time, only to be told that the chef will not show up for work until 8 p.m.

We typically see stores open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. And then it will open again from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. I will give this to the Spaniards: they know how to party. Dinner is typically 8-10 p.m. with desserts at midnight. By the end of the trip, we were living like the Spaniards, minus the siesta part. Being Americans, we kept on charging throughout the day.