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Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South Africa 2010!D-Day: A beginning Eastfield to Istandbul: Grumpyness at 30000ft Turkish shuttle Istanbul by day Istanbul by night Long walk to freedom Lisbon walking tour Discovering Lisbon Exploring Sintra Fado’s night out The rain in Spain falls mainly on my brain A day in medieval Toledo Madrid on a Sunday Flamenco por una buena causa To Barcelona Barcelona! Barcelona!Gaudi in the morning Olympic in the afternoon Chilling in Barcelona La Rambla To Nice A Nice night Relax, take it Eze Monaco in an afternoon Chilling in Nice To Venice Our first day in Venice The attempt at Venice night photos The second day in Venice The last night in Venice The Farewell Frenzy in Firenze Exploring Florence Conquering the Dome Conquering the Torra Lucca, I am your father Picnic in Pisa A day in Pisa When in Rome…Ancient scorching Rome Welcome to Naples (and its crazy traffic)A day in Capri Ancient scorching Pompeii To Santa Fortunata Chilling in Sorrento Back to Rome Aida and the catacombs The Vatican in a flash The End

jnroux

Western Europe 2010

Madrid on a Sunday

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Jun 27 2010, 09:14 AM

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jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

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Madrid, Spain

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This morning we got up at 9:00, had fruit and shaky yoghurt for breakfast and met up with Janno just before 10:00. We jumped on the metro and first up was Plaza del Toro, the Madrid bull-ring --- third largest and most famous bull-ring in the world! We went for a guided tour through the arena and actually walked out into the ring itself… awesome experience. Luckily there were no bulls in there with us, but for safety I did not ware my red shirt. However, we were told that the bulls are colour-blind! So I think a motionless person is a safe person; given that the original charge is not in your direction of course. From here we took the metro to Parque del Buen Retiro (the largest park in Madrid). We found a whole symphonic orchestra playing and we sat on two benches facing each to have lunch (very njammie wraps Riana made in the Huis Luis kitchen). Check out Riana’s new Bollywood shades that Janno bought her… she left her sunglasses on the Easyjet to Madrid! After lunch we explored the park a bit: (1) fed the crazy fish of Estanque dam (they basically eat anything you throw at them), (2) checked out a Zen woman doing Zen moves near Palacio de Cristal and (3) stumbled upon an open-air gym, where an 80+ year old man was doing ab-crunches… amazing! When we walked out of the park we could see the train station we would leave from the next day (on our way to Barcelona): Estacion de Atocha. From here we walked down Passeo del Prado, past Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Museu del Prado and Museu Thyssen, and finnaly stopped at Huis Luis for a well-earned siesta. OLE! At 18:00 we hit the streets again in search of lunch. Since it was Sunday no supermarkets were open and we walked to Plaza Mayor in search of Chocolateria San Gines. Here we bought Chocolate con Churros (a cup of melted chocolate and donut-like sticks to dip into the chocolate). After all he sweetness we took the Metro back to Huis Luis in preparation of Flamenco night!

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