We woke up early today to catch the AVE high speed train from Malaga to Madrid. The train ride was really great. We surpassed 300km/hour. Just for fun I turned on the GPS and clocked our speed at almost 190mph. Good thing Garmin is not linked to the police since he thought we were driving.
It looks fast because it is fast. Really freaking fast!
We tried going to the Royal Palace on Monday but it was closed due to a special event and someone forgot to tell them how special Tom and I are. So we just meandered the streets of Madrid and, like Barcelona, we are very impressed with this nice city.
A small sample of the beauty of Madrid. There is so much more.
On our final day we made it to both the Prado Museum and the Royal Palace. Both are extremely impressive and overwhelming. The Prado was great, but two and a half hours in a museum with countless Catholic paintings makes Brian’s head spin. The Royal Palace is another experiment in uninhibited opulence, but again, it was impressive and worth seeing. We enjoyed the amazing chandeliers most.
The outside of the Royal Palace. Too bad no pictures were allowed inside.
It’s time to sign off for this trip and for this portion of my travel blog. We fly home tomorrow and are both ready to get home to the furry fearsome five-some. Enough hotels, enough driving in Europe (although, it does suit me quite well... too well), enough eating out and enough walking everywhere and seeing everything. It has been thoroughly enjoyable. So until next time…
Ciao! Au revoir! Adios!
Brian (author) and Tom (contributing editor)
Beautiful pictures & great commentary.
ReplyDeleteArrivederci!
Have fun. Hugh