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Madrid definitely felt like a capital city.
We saw two world class museums - Museo del Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
- which are among the best that we've ever visited. We accidentally wandered
into the Senate and saw where Spanish laws are made. (Note that none of the
aforementioned places allow pictures, so you will have to go for yourself if
you want to see what we saw.) Madrid
also was clearly a nightlife center; every night, the streets filled with
people headed towards bars and clubs. While Madrid
lacked the coastal ambiance of Barcelona,
it had an aura of excitement and importance.
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La
Plaza Mayor, right outside our hotel.
El Prado -- a huge
museum of famous art.
A
bear.
 
Casa
Mingo, where we ate tapas and drank sangria. We ate tapas almost every
night--tapas are small size dishes that usually have some sort of meat cooked
in olive oil then served on a plate in a bed of olive oil then they pour
olive oil on top. Potatoes most often accompany the meal, and guess how the
potatoes are cooked. Needless to say, we began to get sick of olive oil and
tapas after a while. Spain
is big into jamon (ham); the even have el Museu de Jamon, and they like to
have big animal legs hanging from the ceiling for you to choose from. We ate
at Casa Mingo the night that Josh found out he had received a huge fellowship
from NASA. Also of note is that Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, used to
live in Casa Mingo.
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