Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Day 124: Madrid
September 27: Decided to do a hop on/hop off bus tour today. Saw various buildings, plazas, fountains and points to note along the way, including Real Madrid Football Club´s home stadium, Royal Palace and Puerto del Sol.
Made a stop at Templo De Debod (Egyptian temple) but it was closed for maintenance. Also had a nice walk through the Botanical Gardens (more educational and scientific than relaxing... like Sydney), and spent a few hours at the Museo Thysse-Bornemisza art gallery, which had a huge range of art from different periods, and nationalities. Worthwhile... even though I´ll be going to lots more museums in Barcelona!
Once again, it was a nice sunny day in Madrid.
Had a relaxing evening not doing very much.
PS. Today was World Tourism Day... to celebrate people were handing out bunches of daisies to streetgoers, as well as on the tourist bus I was on today. Nice gesture. Wonder what else was done around the world to mark this day?!
Made a stop at Templo De Debod (Egyptian temple) but it was closed for maintenance. Also had a nice walk through the Botanical Gardens (more educational and scientific than relaxing... like Sydney), and spent a few hours at the Museo Thysse-Bornemisza art gallery, which had a huge range of art from different periods, and nationalities. Worthwhile... even though I´ll be going to lots more museums in Barcelona!
Once again, it was a nice sunny day in Madrid.
Had a relaxing evening not doing very much.
PS. Today was World Tourism Day... to celebrate people were handing out bunches of daisies to streetgoers, as well as on the tourist bus I was on today. Nice gesture. Wonder what else was done around the world to mark this day?!
# posted by mishij @ 2:50 PM 
