Hostal Barrera
Travel Blogs from Madrid
Cordoba and Granada
... out together so we changed and went out. There was no real plan and a bunch of us were tired and it was raining. So about 6 of us decided to head back to the hotel. On the way I stopped and got a delicious mango smoothie. The next morning was so hard to get up which stunk because I had no time to enjoy the delicious breakfast. This place had a nice big buffet.
We left Granada around 9 and headed to a small town where we went to an olive oil museum. It was ...
3 country update!
... 8217;s inside walls are covered with beautiful blue and white tile frescoes. The riverfront was full of different coloured buildings, and there were pretty bridges and a grand pirate ship-looking boat. We then had a short river cruise, which gave me ample opportunity to test out my new camera and its many settings. After lunch I checked out two churches, one which had a tower that supposedly had more than 200 steps, though it didn’t seem like it. It must be my thighs of ...
Whirlwind Madrid
... we were now experts), Velasquez (whom I like very much) and quite a few Titian's. I had great fun. But I got really excited when I saw a work by Bosch, a Flemish artist.i recognized some of his fantasy creations. I had a book as a child with similar weird creatures and there was a picture that I found facinating. ( I thought the author had made it up. I didn't know it was a real painting.) I was in the process of describing the picture to ...
I've lived the movie "The Terminal"
... still basically the only thing open).
There is something sincerely scary about consuming McDonald's twice in 12 hours that I never want to repeat. We didn't have a lot of other options, but still. I really cannot even fathom how some people manage to eat this stuff multiple times a week. It feels like you've eaten a rock after wards.
In any case, we took full advantage of the fact that we had bought two meals ...