Second Day In Madrid.

The journey and the evening walk around the area of the apartment made us sleep a little too well in the night that we got ourselves ready to venture into Madrid city a little too late in the morning. Najla was especially difficult to wake up. She did not walk the previous evening but was pushed around in her stroller and yet……

I want my hot choc, Mummy

We checked out various places in Madrid. We continued in the old city part and then moved on to the Plaza Mayor area and the Opera area and took some photos. We thought of trying the tourist bus, the one with the open top, but decided against it as it was already late in the afternoon by then. We would take it another day, perhaps when Fahrul comes over to join us later in the week.

Plaza Mayor is apparently a touristy place. Almost everyone or group were taking pictures and posing for photos, and I assume these people are tourists like us. The shopping outlets too indicate that they are for tourists! Their prices gave them away ha ha! The open square, with a statue of a horseman in the centre, a very large area equivalent to about four football fields were thronged with people mostly toting cameras of all types and sizes. The weather was good, cool and sunny most part of the day except for one short stint of clouds and a very slight drizzle that did not bother anybody, some unfazed even. There were engravings on the sidewalks and on the statues but they were all in Spanish and I could not make out what was written. I noticed the year written as 1593 and at another place as 1624 and other dates at other locations just as old. So, this place must be over 500 years old or maybe older.

In Front Of Opera

Similarly with the Opera area and through the pedestrian mall that stretched from Opera to Sol. There were tourists everywhere. I hear many languages being spoken and there were indeed very few speaking English!!



We managed to get to the Estacion de Autobus, which is the outstation Bus Station, to enquire about a trip to Cordoba, the place and the reason why I wanted so much to go to Spain. So, off we will go to Cordoba the next day. We will be making a day trip, a long journey, and with me still ‘under the weather and coughing too’ I hope I will survive………



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Old City Apartment
Madrid, España.