From Seville we took a fast (250 km/hr), 3-hour train to Madrid, Spain’s capital city. Madrid is a very sprawling and cosmopolitan-feeling city and home to some 3.2 million Spaniards. We spent two days in Madrid exploring and tying up loose ends (getting extra passport pages, exchanging guidebooks, etc) before departing Europe for our next and final continent, South America. There is a lot to see and do in Madrid, a city filled with culture and fascinated with art, and we did our best to cover as much ground as we could during our time here.
Our favorite spots to people-watch included some of the city’s famous plazas, Mayor and Puerta del Sol, and the surrounding streets of both. On Friday afternoon, we spent some time gawking at Goya's paintings at the Museo Nacional Del Prado, Spain’s most cherished art museum. We also really enjoyed wandering Madrid’s sprawling garden park called Parque de El Retiro. We saw some other great sites as well, and considered Madrid an excellent send-off to our time in Europe.
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Just officially spent an hour at work reading about your adventures! So glad to have another distraction at the office and to see how amazing your trip is!
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