The second weekend in September Marcio and I went to Madrid to check out the city and see a music festival at the university there. We stayed with my cousin Sylvia, which was great, even though she was out of town until our last morning in town. Madrid is a desert city, which made for some excellent sunsets, and it has some great parks, too.
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| Crystal Palace |
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| Sunset over the lake in the park |
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| Don Quixote statue at Plaza de España |
There's a transplanted Egyptian temple in Madrid (because every European capital needs something stolen from Egypt), and it's a great place to watch the sunset, since it looks west out of the city. Marcio and I went there one evening and, while waiting for the sun to sink, we met GANDALF! An old man with a long, white beard, simple gray clothes, and crystal blue eyes sat with us on a bench and talked with us about anything and everything for over an hour. Actually, he didn't speak - he was under a vow of silence, so he borrowed my notebook and wrote to us. I can't decipher his script now - I think it's probably elvish, which I was temporarily able to understand since I was close enough to Gandalf.
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| Egyptian Temple - one of Gandalf's regular haunts |
The concerts were pretty sweet. The first night we saw Sigur Ros, and the second night we saw The Kooks and The Killers. All three were great, though Sigur Ros was (of course) pretty different from the other two!
It's really a pity, but I didn't get a picture with my cousin. However, it was fun to stay in her place with the 5 cats and the 9 turtles!
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| Fellow boarders at Sylvia's |
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