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Hola from Madrid
What a lovely pretty city Madrid is. Apparently the city in Europe with the most trees & since we’ve been here it’s been beautiful and sunny.
We came to Madrid on Saturday after catching a train from San Sebastian. It was a 6hr train trip which actually went quite fast & was very pleasant just to read & snooze.
Well San Sebastian was certainly a nice quiet introduction to Spain because the first couple of days in Madrid I was mind boggled by the number of people everywhere. It was unbelievable – even at 11 o’clock at night you couldn’t blimin move for the people!I I hated it actually but in the last couple of days either it’s less people or I’m getting more used to it.
We have done heaps of sightseeing & what a lovely city it is but my standouts wait for it have been the museums! I am definitely not a museum person but Amy wanted to go to the Reina Sofai museum & I loved it. It had Dali’s & Picasso’s works which were great & then we also went to a Photographic museum which was different again. What fascinated me was the groups of schoolkids aged as young as 6 &7 sat down in front of a Salvador Dali painting having it explained to them!
My highlight of Madrid would have to be our Walking Tapas tour that I booked us on. There was a group of 7 of us & our guide & all the others were Americans. Well I think Amy was pretty skeptical about the whole thing but it ended up with us getting home at 2am in the morning!!What a hoot – it was great. The guide took us to 3 very different tapas bars & he was also a wine enthusiast so had all these different wines to go with the tapas. It finished about 11pm & then we carried on at an Irish pub with one of the couples. I would certainly recommend ‘Madrid Walking Tapas Tour’.
Well that’s been Madrid & now we are off to Valencia today. Just a short 3.5hr train trip this time (The only thing I hate about the train trips is lugging the suitcase up onto the trains!!)
So adios for now & I’ll email from Valencia xxxx
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