We arrived Sunday evening and decided to go out for some tapas and drinks at several bars and a local market before going out to see some live music. We found a local bar that had a blues band performing. We also decided to head out to a club that was supposed to be massive, but it turned out to be closed.
On our first full day in Madrid we went on a walking tour and learned a lot about the city's geography and history. We then went to the Reina Sophia museum where we saw some notable works by Pablo Picasso, including the amazing Gurnica, and Salvador Dali. That evening we went for dinner to the restaurant called El Sobrino de Botin. This restaurant is famous for two main reasons. Firstly it claims to be the world's oldest restaurant (which it proves with its certificate from the Guinness book of world records) and secondly, the American novelist Ernest Hemingway counted this as one of his favorite haunts. We since learnt that the guy pretty much drank everywhere in the city anyway, buy it was still very cool.
On our last day in Madrid (and Europe) we went to the city's main park (Parc de Retiro) and spent the day lying in the sun playing guitar and relaxing. We had a 5am check in for our flight to new York, so we decided not to sleep for the night so as to sleep well on the flight. To pass the time until then we went and saw Midnight in Paris for the second time on the trip! After some famous churros and packing our bags we were off to the airport. It was really sad actually to say goodbye to Europe despite the obvious excitement for new York!
Location:Madrid, Spain
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