Madrid is going very well!! We went downtown yesterday for the first time, exciting!! We took a train that's very close by our hotel. It took about half an hour to get there. It was quite fun. The first part you could see the city, but the second part was mostly tunnel, very scenic. :) After the train ride we walked around a little, then we got to see all these bikers passing us. Apparently there was the Festi Bike competition going on. They went by really fast!
We went to the Prado Museum, and it was very interesting. We were there for about 2 hours. It was awesome because at 5:00 pm, it was free to get in. Outside, it seemed like a lot of people were there, but it was actually quite nice. Not everyone was at the same place at the same time when we were there, so it was good. It was really amazing because the museum has about 8,600 paintings!! But it only shows up to 2,000 of them because of limited space. They not only had paintings, but also sculptures. They have painting made by people from Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. All in all, it was very fun.
The Retiro park was the next stop. They have tons of low bushes, flowers, and trees. It was very pretty. There were a lot of people when we got closer to the middle of the park. They were selling things like ice cream, DVDs, jewelry etc. Some people were playing music. They have a good diversity in age; young couples, families, and older couples (you get what I'm talking about) After that, we went to McDonalds. :)
Here is a fun factoid about Madrid, try to figure it out! (by the way, the language it's in is Catalan)
Abans de Madrid es diu Madrid es Ursaria, que significa "Terra d'óssos".
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Very interesting Rachel. So is the menu at McDonalds the same in Spain? Also, have you actually seen any bears?
ReplyDeleteNo, actually we haven't seen any bears yet. It took us a while to get what you said (but then we got it). :)
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