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Hi guys!

So this morning I woke up and saw it was going to be 104° today! I’m in the middle of the city without any easy access to bodies of water, so my game plan to beat the heat was to spend as much of the day inside as possible. Hence my goal to walk the entire Prado museum in a day. Spoiler alert, I gave up around 3/4 of the way through, but not because I physically couldn’t do the distance, I was mentally overwhelmed. This museum is filled with Goya, Bosch, and Velazquez aka a lot of Jesus, Greek mythology, and portraits of dead people lol. But they’re mostly moody and dark and honestly there’s only so many dead Jesus paintings you can see before you’re totally over it, like I got the point the first 20 times around. Thankfully the museum did get new sculptures so that was fun to look at. There was a very sassy muse who totally looks like she’s rolling her eyes, which I took a picture of and subsequently got in trouble for. Oops, I didn’t see any no photo signs around and it’s not like I used flash. Oh well, the lady didn’t make me delete the photo so it was a win for me! And now you get to see the only picture from my four hours at the museum. 

By the time I surrendered, it was well past lunch time and I tried to get some food at the museum cafeteria, and they refused to serve me after I asked if anything had nuts in it because of my allergies! That was definitely a first for me, and they were too scared to give me anything but water!! So I started walking down the main road on the hunt for lunch and snapped a few photos along the way. 

Along the way ended up being a very long long way because it was so hard to find a place I could eat because of all the pork! It felt like the Spanish Inquisition all over again haha. The hanger was so real by the time, I found a place that had tortilla, an egg and potato dish, that I happily wolfed down. 

I continued my day exploring the Plaza Mayor and city with my final stop as the Chocolateria San Ginés, the most famous place for chocolate and churros in Madrid. They have been serving chocolate con churros since 1894 and I’d say they definitely perfected their recipe, if you can’t tell by the giant smile on my face! I happily ate all six churros, in case you doubted my abilities hehe. You just can’t get anything as good anywhere else in the world. 

Pretty content with myself and my day, I caught a taxi back to my hotel to pack and prepare for my trip to Salamanca tomorrow!! I’m so excited to go back to my home away from home.

Lots of love, 

Carolyn