Tag: Madrid

Today we wanted to get a relatively early start so we could have breakfast and then arrive at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum soon after they opened at 10.

The Thyssen Museum was wonderful. It took us about two and a half hours to walk through their collection and we moved fairly quickly. I took a lot of pictures. These are just a few of them.

From the museum we walked back to the hotel with a stop for coffee on the way. Back at the hotel we played a few more rounds of cards and rested for a bit.

On the way to dinner we walked through the Mercado de San Míguel.

We ate dinner at a restaurant called Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas. The restaurant is in the cellars under the Plaza Mayor. It’s been there since 1949. We each had roasted suckling pig with rice. It was delicious. We had a great conversation with the people at the table next to us. It was a man from Texas, a woman and her son from Belgium and an older woman from Morelia, Mexico.

Brian and JoAnn fly home tomorrow morning. So this ends a phase of our trip. We have had so much fun traveling with them. We are already strategizing about our next trip together.

As I sit in our room writing this, the moon is coming up over Madrid and we have great view of it from our window.

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I slept for twelve hours last night. And I was only awake for a bit in the middle of the night. That should help with the jet lag!

It was about 11am when we finally went out to breakfast. We went to a great place we’ve been before, La Austriaca, I’ve told myself I will take fewer food pictures this trip but we shall see. It hard when there is so much that is so good. This morning we had more of the great food that makes me think of Spain.

Then we went to the museum of Romanticism.

After a coffee break we walked around a bit enjoying the beautiful streets. We both remarked on how clean the buildings are. Then we saw a sign about the exhibits and viewing platform in the Madrid city hall. The Palácio de Cibeles is emblematic of Madrid.

Inside the ere were several art exhibits and we really enjoyed the view from the observation platform at the top.

For dinner we went out for Tapas. Every time we are in Madrid we go to Cervecería Alemana. It was recommended to us by a good friend who was here around 1970. The bar is about 120 years old. It’s always good too.

Our plane out of San Francisco wasn’t until late Tuesday afternoon so Duke took me and the bags to the BART station and then he drove back to Allison’s and walked back to BART. it took about a hour.

This was the first time we’ve used Air France to fly to Europe and it was great.

We changes planes in Paris.

The flight to Madrid was almost 2 hours. Then we took the Metro into the center.

For dinner we had a jamon and cheese sampler at the wonderful chain, Museo de Jamon.

Then we walked back to the hotel where I plan to sleep for a very long time!