Wandering Around Madrid

R and I went walking around Madrid today--the Castellana is down the road from our hotel so we wandered up to the Bernabeu, home to Real Madrid CF, then made our way down to Huertas, where we hid from the rain in a pretty decent little Chinese restaurant and then enjoyed the much cooler night weather.

Pedestrian walkway along the Castellana

An engineering university in Madrid

Water fountain!

Fountain in the middle of the Castellana (the major north/south road in Madrid)

The start of Nuevos Ministerios (a series of government ministries that line the Castellana)

Another view of the engineering university

The public area inside the government ministry buildings

Same as above

Flag of Spain

The metro station for the football stadium

Real Madrid!

The Santiago Bernabeu--the stadium where Real Madrid plays

The player's entrance, where you can wait after matches for autographs

A bit more of the stadium

American food at El Corte Ingles--a huge department store in Madrid

Gotta have hot sauce!

A building along our walk on Calle Atocha tonight

Movie theater--all the films are dubbed into Spanish, very annoying to watch

A bit more of the night time scene along Atocha

The sidewalk leading from metro Rios Rosas to our hotel

Our hotel

A bit of the hotel room--desk with cable tv, very nice to have

Two larger than normal twin beds

Very nice bathroom!

With a bathtub :)