my other trip to Madrid
Well my trip to the capital wasn't all about finding my new future, I went there with Gemma an d Gerard, and we spent 3 days.... A part from worrying it sick, and from being stress and nervous we manage to do some things fun.
I arrived to the new T4 terminal of Barajas airport, that how to put it, do you imagine how the best terminal it has to be distributed, decorated, build, well then this T4 is just the opposite. A chaos, with MAJOR Letters. it's frustrating, and I can Understand the indications. Poor outsiders were like ok and now what.
The hotel was obviously, on the other part of the city so I took the underground. Not bad, only it took me some time to realize what was freaking me, the trains come from the wrong direction. they come from right, and in Barcelona they come from left, so I was always watching to the wrong direction. A part from that they tell you the time that's passed from the last train, not the time that you have to wait for the next train, it's not that isn't interesting thing to know, but totally useless to do something like that.
Well, once in the Hotel I called Lola, to see if we can met, and she said yes. We met years ago in Vilagate, and keep in contact after that. Even if we haven't been all that in contact lately since her daughter was born, I wanted to see her, and well it helps me to unstress me for a bit. Her daughter is lovely btw.
Then finally, Gemma and Gerard arrived to Madrid, after doing like 3 hours of cue before can enter in Madrid, As Lola told me, that's the usual traffic jam only.I say goodbye to Lola, promising to write again and maintain contact, and get to la puerta del Sol. We went to dinner, it was good, tapas Bar, in the coolest quarter of Madrid. Plenty of bars, and little tascas ( not restaurants, only few tables and lots of people ). On Wednesday morning, we went to El museo del Prado. I love it. We found a Tintoretto's exhibition. Not my favorite, but it was well done. And then well, you have all that Goya's pictures, and Velazquez. And the second part of the painting of el Bosco that I've already seen in venezia. That one is El jardin de las delicias ( his particular vision of the creation ) and the ones in Venezia hell, Paraíso terrenal, Subida al Empíreo, and Caída de los condenados .Hehe, Gemma didn't like it, and we all agree that Bosch had to be smoking something and he was very very High when he painted. I feel totally in love with "la rendicion de breda" and don't like very much the dark Goya's period, with his black paintings.
that's La rendicion de Breda.
But I totally adore some of Goya's pictures, and my fav is EL 3 DE MAYO DE 1808 EN MADRID: LOS FUSILAMIENTOS DE LA MONTAÑA DE PRINCIPE PIO. For what it means.
and one of the most famous Goya's LA FAMILIA DE CARLOS IV.
After our cultural trip it was almost the time to go lunch and we decided to left the museum. And then the major storm never seen on Madrid was upon us, and obviously we don't have any umbrella, what fun that would be, so before lunch, and after lunch we were totally soaked, and dripping water when we enter the ministery,.... then you know what happened there. :D
After that we went to walk a bit, we expend like hours talking to respective family and friends.
That night we went to celebrate to best restaurant I've never been. Lola's advice was perfect it's the greatest tapa's bar in madrid. El Almendro, on EL Almendro's street. There's only wine or beer to drink, nothing else, and all the tapas are like eggs with jamón. potatoes, chips made there. Fantastic, we were famish, and like eat a lot, and get a bit tipsy with the beer. And you have this totally coolest way of being served, as inexistent. You ask for you drinks and go to find a spot, then order your food, one tapa each time, as the tables are really small, and then you go wait in your table, and when your food is ready you hear a bell, and you get upstairs to fetch your food. really great, cheap, and the food is fabulous. If you have to go to Madrid sometime just tell me and I point you how to go there. But I bet it's on every tourist guide, as we see lots of tourists in there, and I spot some Trotamundos guide, and some Lonely planet. But what's better it's full of locals too.
And then it was time to go to sleep, and next day I came back home. I was flying with Vueling on my flight back, and was the greatest flight trip I've ever taken. Vueling people is so cool, and they have all this "we all the coolest company ever" in all the details. And well they put Friends on the tv, and the Simpsons, they have Rolling Stones and Cinemania as magazine, everything is new, and they're really charming.
So that was my other trip to Madrid.