Bread ... Pan (pronounced 'pon') by Maria Engel

We have two bakeries downstairs from our apartment in Valencia, Spain. One bakery just sells bread and it is really small. The other bakery sells bread, sandwiches, drinks, and yummy pastries. I (Maria) like the one that sells pastries the best.

We buy bread every day. I usually offer to go (and look at the other daily goodies while I'm there). I get three or four bars of bread (occasionally more). Each bar costs 70 centimos (about 1 US dollar). A bar of bread looks like french bread.

I ask "Tres barras de pan, por favor?" (That means "Three bars of bread, please.") They keep the bars of bread on shelves and in baskets - not in individual bags. The person at the bakery just grabs the bread with her hands and sticks it into a big bag. This is a picture of me with one of my favorite workers at the bakery.

We use the bread for comida (our big lunch in the afternoon), for snacks, and sometimes for bacadillos (like sub sandwiches). Sometimes we buy regular bread at the grocery story - but that's boring.