Day 17 Tuesday March 15, 2011
There is such thing as a free meal. Tourists are offered free stuff lots of the time, especially dependant on where you are. Free tickets to television shows, movies, tickets to shows, or even food. Sometimes your cost is solely your attendance. When drinking in Granada Spain, free tapas at virtually every bar. If you bar hop, different tapas at each bar. Certain locales in New York City and Brooklyn offer free whole oven baked pizzas with the purchase of a beer. You just need to know where to go.
I took that philosophy today, as I attended a pharceutical dinner. Generally I pass these up, awkward situations with new people you must make social hour with. But I went with a coworker, we wanted to have dinner, they paid, with another 35 plus in attendance. The reward was a six course meal and two glasses of Riesling wine. My payment was listening to a two hour lecture on psychiatric medication. Some was interesting, some over my head, and some daydreams. But despite a two hour lecture midweek, prolonging my night, I would do again, even if only once a month. Think, why not treat yourself to a restaurant that you may never frequent in the future
As a tourist seek out freebies and desert. It’ll stretch out your dollar that you could be spending on a a souvenir, funds for a museum. Research. Read the fine print? If you search it, it will come to you. Just be open-minded and it will come.
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