MADRID II
After waking up at a reasonably early hour of 11am, Gretchen and I headed to Breakfast near El Sol for some scrumptious sandwiches. We made our way to the park (Parque de Retiro). Took a bunch of nature shots and we enjoyed the outdoors on this chili Thursday but altogether it was really nice to experience peace and quiet. They had a model photo shoot going on at the time so we watched that for a little hoping it would be a superstar spotting... Despite it being the cusp of winter, there were still some pretty nice colors to be found in the park
Afterwards we met up with our other two friends from the program at the Reina Sofia--a modern art museum (free for students!). The Reina Sofia featured a lot of Spanish artists like Picasso and Dali and I enjoyed this more modern style of art better than the self portrait gallery at the Prado Museum. We didn't last to long in the Museum because there were so many rooms but we did get to see Picasso's really big piece there called the Guernica. Also, I never knew how thought provoking Dali's surrealist paintings were (one is below to catch a glimpse). At that point we didn't want to walk all the way back so we took the metro for 1Euro and got up to the shopping district to find some great deals and buys.
We went to another contemporary restaurant called "ROOT" that night and then went out to a bar (ladies night so all drinks free again...) and then to club Kapital; a popular tourist nighttime destination and even world known as a hoppin club (7 floors). Only snapped a couple of pictures here in the Heienken top floor bar! Don't worry parents, it was all good, this was not the night I got defeated...that's coming up for Barcelona..
WE did get up at 4am to catch our plane to Barcelona and woooooosh vvvala...new entry to come...eventually. I'll leave with a video from Club Kapital because if I had tried to get myself silly drunk, this would've been a craze of a time. I still had a TONNE of fun.
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