Visiting el Museo del Prado
Wednesday we walked along the Padeo del Prado en route to the Prado Museum, home to many works by Francisco de Goya, one of the most well known Spanish artists in history.
Pigeons in Madrid
Paseo del Prado in Madrid
Spanish trash bins
“The Birth of the Milky Way,” exactly as I’ve always imagined it, by Rubens (1636-37)
The halls of the Prado Museum
This is the floor directory of El Corte Inglés, Spain’s major (only?) department store chain. It’s like Macy’s, but a little expanded.
The Prado Museum
Francisco de Goya, one of the most well known Spanish artists in history
I liked these doors.
San Jerónimo el Real, Madrid
The museum goer
San Jerónimo el Real, Madrid
Tranquility outside the Prado
I’m surprised we don’t have giant ads on scaffolding like this in San Francisco.
The luxury McDonald’s, I am told. I haven’t gone inside yet.
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Then we went to a restaurant called La Hortensia, and Terry and I both ordered giant steaks.
Many of the restaurants seem to give free shots at the end of the meal. At La Hortensia, they gave two different liquors… so Mom insisted we try them both. Somehow that turned into her doing four shots of the chocolate colored stuff.
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Shopping!
This is for Ryan… his favorite mixer!
For dinner we ate a Loving Hut, a weird vegan restaraunt that also happens to be in San Francisco. Tim was surprised I had even heard of it. It’s headed by a woman known as Supreme Master Ching Hai, a spiritual leader and entrepreneur from Vietman. On the TV in the restaurants plays what appears to be their own network, and it’s reminiscent of a poor quality home shopping network mixed with elements of evangelical Christian programming.
The Loving Hut has a much larger menu than their location at Westfield Mall in San Francisco…
Then, Thursday morning, we flew to Barcelona!
Our first apartment hotel entrance. The place was pretty nice.
Madrid Metro map
The subways have random passages from literature and historical documents!
Madrid Metro
