Waking up late again, Sri & I went to El Museo Prado today, viewing all the various paintings by Goya, Velasquez, El Greco, Rubens, Bosch & many more. It was nice to have studied a large number of these paitings already from the class I took while I was a student here (properly entitled "El Arte en El Prado")---made me even more excited to see them again. I was most excited about getting to see Bosch´s Garden of Delights, which was on loan when I was last here.



After the museum, we grabbed a late-afternoon (er, it was like 7pm...but sure felt like late afternoon) snack at Vip´s, a place I also frequented as a student. Sri bought a Spanish Vogue magazine for us to browse through..and was disappointed to find it full of pages of butts, legs & products, rather than fashion. We then wandered around for a long time, even stumbling upon a very neat antique book fair, in celebration of the upcoming San Isidro festival. We saw things like the Puerta de Alcalá, the Plaza de Cibeles, and the Plaza de Colón. We even went window shopping along the very chi-chi Calle Serrano. Too bad it was so rainy---hopefully, we can hit the Parque Retiro on Saturday when we return (as well as the Reina Sofia museum).



Tonight, at 10:45pm--prime dinnertime, we had a yummy paella dinner at a restaurant called Torres Bermejas, which came with a very entertaining night of flamenco singing and dancing. Ah, eso es la vida. ¡Vale!