Last day in Madrid

Well it has been a busy week so this is when I am finally getting around to writing aboutthe second and last day in Madrid and our day in Toledo. In Madrid on Tuesday we took a city walking tour. We met at La Plaza Mayor and toured the historic places around there, multiple beautiful churches, city hall and on to the Royal Palace of Madrid. An absolutely enormous palace with a huge courtyard and stunning gardens.

After seeing the palace we got a lunch break and picked up some bocadillas (traditional sandwiches) and sat in another park to enjoy lunch in Madrid. After lunch we headed to El Museo Del Prado, or the Prado Museum. We saw a bunch of paintings by people I have never heard of and then finally saw a painting by Picasso and the set of paintings by Fransico Goya, painted to commemorate a revolt in Spain on the 2nd of May 1808. The second painting, the 3rd of May 1808 is a painting I studied in an art history class last year, so it was a lot of fun to recognize something in the museum.

We found an Ice Bar just up from the Prado and went in for a cool down (Madrid is really hot) and a vodka beer called Sputnik. It was really cool, everything made out of ice, the walls, chairs, table and bar. Not many people can say they drank in an igloo.

Later that night we headed off to dinner with a group of people and then on to a club. We went to the Palace, seemed like a knock-off Vegas club, but didn't have too much going on so we headed out and decided to call it a night. We were leaving for Toledo at 9 the next morning and needed to pack and sleep.

The great adventure began the next day... Off to Toledo we go!