We have 4 nights in Madrid and so far we are having a wonderful time.
Madrid is a charming city, the buildings are beautiful with gorgeous balconies overlooking the streets and the many plazas. There is plenty of parkland to provide respite from the heat although whilst we have been here the weather has been quite mild which has been a nice change.
The last two days we have enjoyed two vastly different art museums, the Reina Sofia museum and the Museo Nacional del Prado.
The Reina Sofia is a more of a modern art museum featuring artists such as Dali, Picasso, Juan Gris and some intriguing work by James Coleman who specialises in the use of audio visual media. There were some excellent examples of portrait photography which I particularly enjoyed and one of the most famous paintings was Pablo Picasso's Geurnica, which was painted following around the time of the Spanish Civil war.
The Museo Nacio Del Prado houses more classical works by artists such as Rubens and a Spanish artist by the name of Goya, Pete was quite fond of his series of paintings known as the black paintings, quite dark and mysterious.
Aside from enjoying these museums we have spent a lot of time walking around the city, Madrid is such a wonderful city to take a stroll and despite looking big on a map it is surprisingly small and easy to get around.
It is a good thing too that we have been taking long walks because yes, yet again we have been enjoying the delights of Spanish food. It is too hard to say no to one more croquette or piece of jamon (ham) freshly cut from the bone. Today we enjoyed a specialty called Heuvos rotos which is broken eggs (fried) over the top of hot chips and either with jamon or chorizo. We also enjoyed some churros for breakfast!
We have one more day in Madrid and plan tomorrow to visit Real Madrid stadium, the bull ring and walk along Gran Via for a bit of window shopping. No doubt the day will start with some churros and end with a sangria, oh what a great time we are having!
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