We arrived safely in Madrid early in the morning and quickly went to get our first "café con leche", in a cafe close to the city center Sol with all our suitcases and some serious jet lag. After walking around for a while and getting to know Sol and La Plaza Mayor, we rested for a bit and then went our separate ways to meet our host mothers.
The next morning, we met for another coffee in La Plaza Santa Ana, and found Pete and Luca already enjoying some tortilla española (Luca loves his tortilla española). The bitter coffee (or hot chocolate in Hannah's case) quickly woke us up, and then we continued our exploration of Madrid, walking down Huertas, where we stopped to appreciate the various quotes from Spanish literature written on the street. We passed by El Prado, and then went to lunch, where we tried a variety of different tapas including anguilitas--baby eels.
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| Pimientos de padrón |
From lunch we walked to El Palacio Real, where we enjoyed some fruit and took some selfies and candids. After our fun with the cameras, we toured the inside of the Palace, which is incredibly beautiful.
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| El Palacio Real |
We sat and chatted in another cafe within view of the palace for some time, and then found our way back to our apartments by ourselves. I myself took a wrong turn getting out of the metro, and then quickly realized that Madrid, unlike New York, is not built on a grid system. I asked for directions and found my way back.
Wednesday we met to have yet another café con leche, a theme of the trip, and then walked around El Parque Retiro. It was a beautiful sunny day (as every day here has been) and the park was amazing. For lunch, Sophie, Hannah, and I were told to get ourselves lost in the city so as to get to know it better. We were rather proud of the job we had done when we stepped out of the restaurant we ate lunch in, and immediately saw Amy, Pete, and baby Luca. Clearly our sense of direction is just too good.
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