More Madrid

The S.O. dragged me 447km round trip yesterday to buy a cast iron dutch oven.  Don’t even ask how much it cost.

On the plus side, she seems to have re-learned the idea of gratitude sex-for now. We will see how long it lasts.

In the meantime here are some more Spain pictures. Click on them to see properly and in a larger view.

This was the old castle the Hapsburgs used in the 15 and 1600 hundreds. Easily accessible by bus from Madrid- that’s what we took. It is known as El Escorial.

More pictures below:

It had a beautiful Basilica inside-but of course, no pictures were allowed.

Some pictures from the gardens:

One of the things that surprised me about Madrid was the geography-it was much more hilly than I expected. I guess I had envisioned it as flat.

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