final installation of spain..
our lovely lobby from cats hostel..
wiseguys yang and i skipped the three euros entreance to museo el prado and visited the opposite retiro park for one euro. though not all the flowers were in season, the camelias and tulips were amazingly beautiful.. which made me think why the heck would anyone want to lie on a bed of roses when camelia spreads look even more inviting and don't rose bushes have thorns? HMMMM..
this was taken outside the royal palace. we asked two local madridians to help us take a photographs with the roman statues and after that, they volunteered to be in the picture with us! talk about spontaneous.. i love the spanish.. they can be incredibly offhand, without giving a damn if anyone thinks they are odd.. haha.. note how colour coordinated we are!
madrid downtown.
another favourite moment was when yang and i impetuously walked into a hair salon because yang was tired of the jaw-dropping haircut prices in uk. after gaining much insight into the price rates, we picked up the spanish instyle, picked out a picture and showed it to our non-english-speaking hairdresser.. who then proceeded to provide yang with quite the hair-raising ride of her life.
we watched flamenco at casa patas on ,our second night in madrd. we actually visited casa patas on our first night in madrid since it was just a couple of doors away from our hostel. we met incredibly friendly locals, including two semi-drunks and the bartender. our two drunk amigos kept yang and i amused and introduced us to pulpo gallega by letting us take a bite of their plates.. haha..
pulpo gallega from casa patas (madrid): 'pulpo' means octopus in spanish and though this dish can be served as a tapas, we had it as an entree at casa patas, thanks to our drunks amigos the night before. this delicious dish was served galician style- octopus, sprinkled with sea salt, paprika and olive oil and grilled to plump perfection. plate's up!
i think we caught a spanish boyband in mtv-filming- action.
with four days in madrid, we owned all the time in the world and i will never forget spending a lazy afternoon on the lawns on royal palce, just gazing into the vast clear-blue skies and talking about i-have-forgotten-what. thoroughly relaxing..more photos:
barcelona
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