Wednesday, Day 7 - Madrid

Woke up at 5 and can´t go back to sleep it is Freezing cold here. I feel back asleep at 9am only to awake again at 12:00.. We took showers and then headed out for the day. We started first by going to the Palacio Real de Madrid it is the royal place of spain, while we were there we got to see the changing of the gaurd, it was pretty cool. Kevin said he had never seen that or even knew they had a gaurd.

We then went to breakfast/lunch we both had pizza, Kevin had Jamon y champiñón or ham and mushroom pizza and I have a combo pizza, one slice was black olive (whole) and one slice with jamon, one slice with champiñón and one slice with anchovies. Now don´t get me wrong I am not an anchovie eater but I had to have it since hey.. when in Madrid.. they are not different here, stinky, salty, hairy looking little fish.

After lunch we headed for Plaza de Cibeles



We didn´t go in or anything just took some pictures and walked over to Museo Nacional Del Prado where we toured the museum and got to see about 40 rembrandts.





We then left to find the elusive Biblioteca madrid..



This is a picture of it.. We spent well over an hour asking people and looking at maps and traveling up and down the streets of Madrid never to find it. So we stopped our search and headed to Retiro Park



It was not hard to find but since it was getting dark Kevin said we should probably stay outside since it is a good place to get drugs or mugged or both.

After the park we headed back to the hotel room to figure out what to eat for dinner. I am not sure if I told you but most people here eat lunch between 2 and 4 and then eat dinner after 9 and sometimes as late as 11pm, heck most restaurants open at 8pm. We decided just to have Tapas, we found a nice little spot somewhere near La Latina Metro station, We had calamari, pemientos de Padrón (Fried peppers with sea salt) and Croquetas de Jamón Serrano.




Keeping with tapas tradition we left and headed to our next Tapas restaurant, We decided to make our own tapas at a Chinese place. I ordered Seafood soup and the house appetizer platter. Kevin ordered Miso soup and some Tuna sushi which turned out to be tuna hand rolls. We then headed home for the night only to be asked about fifty times if we wanted to go to a cabaret show, which me being nieve thought it was just scantly clad dancer girls, well the pictures on the wall were alot less dressed then I remember from the movies more like not dressed would be more like it.