How do you make a web log interesting by talking about museums? Not very easily. Let's just say our kids have about 2 hours worth of tolerance for a museum. This can be extended a little by ipods, museum benches, and bribery. We have managed to see art in the Prado, Thyssen, Reina Sofia, archeology in the museo arqueológico, and a detailed model of Madrid in the museo municipal. Being the cheapskates we are, we definitely took advantage of the free saturday pm/sunday admission for a few of these.Well, one of the nice interludes we had was at the Parque del Buen Retiro (park of the good rest). This is the largest park in Madrid and for about 250 years was the private retreat of royaly until it was opened to the public in 1868. There is a large "lake" in the middle, and we were able to go out on the lake in a rowboat. Even more fun was watching all the Madrileños in their boats and walking around the park on an absolutely beautiful spring day. The kids got a chance to burn off a little museum fatigue and mom and dad got a chance to relax as well. A couple of us got slightly sunburned (being a little sunlight deprived in Portland). Also, it would be fair to say that red and gray hair tend to stand out in this country of dark haired, dark eyed folks.
At this point, we are leaving museums behind and heading out to Segovia tommorrow, then Toledo the next day.
3 comments:
Two hour museum grace period...hmmmm, probably exceeds mine...the bench sounds great! Are you going to visit the coast? Willaim Shirer in BERLIN DIARY wrote that the he and his wife vacationed in a sleepy little Spainish fishing village for the best part of a year on $600...of course 2007 and has to be somewhat more pricey than 1933...there time there sounded like a lot of fun...
oppps, substitute 'their' there for me...
Hey Guys,
Amanda is visiting and she showed me your blog. It looks like you guys are having fun and we are enjoying the pictures. I would love to visit there again someday with our family. I remember that chocolate, especially on New Year's Day Morning, I could almost taste it!!! Love,
Rebecca
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