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This was the last of stop of the March adventures and the friend I went with does not want to be disclosed but we had a blast.  We were in Madrid for 1,5 days so not a whole lot of time; however, Madrid was charming and really really cold. 













After we checked into the hotel, we wondered throughout Madrid and made our way to Retiro Park.  It was fun - we weren't so tired yet and the weather was beautiful.  It's similar to many other European parks with the statues in the middle of well laid out paths and a lake in the middle.
Look at the beautiful sky!
After the park,we went to Prado Museum - it was the only museum we visited in Madrid, but there are many more for those with more time.  Prado Museum has free entrance 2 hours before it closes but you have to be ready to wait in line.  The line moves quickly but they do give each person a ticket and we probably waited for around 30-40 minutes which means once we got into museum we only had a little over an hour to see it.  The museum itself is not huge but definitely not small.  We looked on the map and decided to go with the main exhibition which includes Vasquez, Raphael and Goya (plus many others but those are the names that kind of drew our attention).  We were extremely tired (traveling for half the day and then walking around Madrid for several hours) but we exhibition is great, I wish I had more time to see it and more than that I wish I could of taken a guided tour.  The museum is really that good (in my humble opinion).

On the second day we ended up buying hats because we knew that there was no way we could handle Walking tour without them.  Yes, I do look funny but was completely worth it. We spent most of the day  walking around, enjoying the Spanish food and wines, taking it all in.



 
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