I'm feeling a little lazy and have four blogs to write to catch up so this one will be more of a photo montage of our two days in Spain's capital city, Madrid.
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| We did a bike tour our first day in Madrid, it was in the rain but that meant not too many other people at the sites which was nice for a change, especially for short old me i didn't have to stand on tip toe trying to see what everyone else already could. The bike tour was good, our tour guide gave Ewen a run for his money in the random facts department |
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| This is a cathedral in Madrid, it is opposite the Palace and all the locals hate it. I think this cathedral is referred to as the Cement Elephant by the locals. i have to agree with them, we have seen a lot of cathedrals in our travels and this one was pretty bland and grey. |
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| The Palace behind its huge gates. It has something ridiculous like 2800 rooms and 50 of them are open to the public (for a price of course) |
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| The oldest church in Madrid |
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| Ewen with his man bag/raincoat in a park. cant remember why this park was significant... |
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| The place the famous people go. This is a Flamenco Bar that over the years has seen many a famous person including The Rolling Stones, and an American President (cant remember which one) and several others. |
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| The coolest town logo in the world |
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| This one is for you Riki. Some cute old Spanish men in a square. |
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| A statue of Madrid's logo |
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| Our second day we went to the Prado Museum, this was a painting that really disturbed me... |
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| Ham at the supermarket |
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| Our second day we went back to the Palace for a better look around. |
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| Doing our posh faces before going into the Palace |
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| Posh face...? |
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| The Palace in Madrid is supposedly bigger than Buckingham Palace |
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| The line to get in |
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| View from the Palace |
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| Ewen the Prince |
And that pretty much sums up our time in Madrid. Except that we tried Tapas for the first time. How it works is you order a drink (alcoholic) and they bring you free food! For every drink you order you get a different little entree i suppose you could call it. we had mini burgers, samosas, hash browns, chips, and a few other things. On our last night we went out for Tapas and drinks with Amy (my friend Laurens friend who has also been traveling on Busabout) at a restaurant near our hostel.
4 comments:
Madrid looks great. Its a wonder yr posh faces didn't get u to the head of line ha ha.
A'Wend U'Helmut & boys came up today with heaps of plants from Mrs G'S garden which we put in. Wend here for next ten days. Then Fran & Ken for a few weeks - its terrific.
Whats with so many photos and no writing this is turning into a photo blog. Lift your game pieta not that we dont love your photos. next time i check your blog I will be in Phuket
Pieta, those old men look much cuter than Australian old men.haha.
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