2024 Madrid Open
It has been a very quick first week in Spain as I made my way to Barcelona to visit a friend for several days and then to Madrid to watch the men’s and women’s Madrid Open tennis finals. I also spent several hours visiting the Prado museum in Madrid…though this great museum would take days or weeks to adequately explore. But visit for the Bosch and Goya Black Paintings at the very least. I’ll be back to the museum again at the end of June, but fighting the crowds here can be exhausting. I took the train to Pamplona this morning and met my brother and his wife and we will be heading to southern France tomorrow to start our Camino. We are a bit anxious to get going and a bit nervous about spending 30+ days walking. I’ll try to keep posting while we are on our trek, but posting with this iPad may drive me crazy at some point…but I wasn’t going to be lugging a laptop around for 5 weeks. Highlights in Barcelona were the Vinilo vinyl bar for music we listened to in college, the Bar RAIM Cuban bar, and the Bodega Neus tapas bar…all in the Gràcia section. Lots of cerveza and a two bottle of wine night thrown in. Madrid was almost exclusively back and forth to the tennis matches. Some pics from the first week:
