Madrid

A few weeks ago, I hopped on a train to Madrid and spent a night in the capital city. Valencia has a train station that took us straight there in a little less than two hours. I really liked the train ride; it was comfortable and quiet and really fancy. It was just like an airplane and there was even a train car ahead of us that had a bar in it. 

We got off the train and had a bit of a hike to get to our hostel. Unlike Valencia, Madrid is actually a pretty hilly city. And it is enormous. So we had our work cut out for us. Did you know Spain is the second most mountainous country in Europe? I didn't. This is the exterior clock tower of the train station.

Maybe an agricultural building?

More train station.

I don't remember anything about this fancy building but it looked cool.

I think we couldn't actually check in to the hostel for a while so we got on a tourist double decker bus and took a trip around the city. They had 12 different languages you could listen to the tour in and even some languages for kids. The kids Spanish version talked about stuff like cats and playgrounds. 

That stadium is where Real Madrid plays. Neat.

We weren't allowed to take photos inside El Mudeo del Prado, but I think this statue was outside of it. I saw some cool paintings from Fransisco de Goya in there like Saturn and The Third of May of 1808, which I really enjoyed.

This is a beer and tapas. Tapas are delicious little Spanish snacks.

Our hostel was this brightly colored interior that tried a little too hard to appeal to youths. 

There was an indoor swing set. 

Stay tuned for more Madrid photos in part II!