So having had a bit of a rest after the large lunch, we decided to walk a bit around Madrid. Three hours later we’re back in the room with sore feet. There are a lot more hills in Madrid than Barcelona or London. Well, steeper hills. We walked up the road our hostel is on, to the Plaza Mayor, then around that and down the road to the Teatro and across that garden to the Palace. I said start looking for a place to sit and have a drink. But we didn’t. Well, not until we walked all the way back through Madrid ending up outside the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, then walked up the road by there to cut across to our hotel. Then on Calle de Jesus we found a nice little bar and sat and had a drink and some olives, before heading back to the hotel.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow more walking and trade in our online voucher for our museum tickets.<\/p>\n
Joe’s question of the day ‘why does art hurt your feet?’ To which I replied, ‘But we didn’t see any art today!’ Silly thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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