Velazquez outside the Museo de Prado

for those of you who aren't cultured and up on your art, he was a painter. His work is displayed in the Prado, the famous art museum here in Madrid. (We didn't know who he was either!). It's obviously a very popular place, because every time we have tried to go there has been a really long queue to get in. We did go to the Reina Sofia though, the modern art museum, to see some Dali and Picasso...

Living La Vida Loca...(Come on!)

January 27th 2008
Lar Gorn to Thailand.....TTFN to England.....Hola to Spain! (I'm so multilingual....) So then. South East Asia.... England.... and now Spain. In a single month of December we'd had our fill of English weather and were back on the road to the land of tapas, bullfighting, flamenco, guitars, tacky package holidays and men in big hats. Yes. Spain. I'd have titled this blog "Viva Esp ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more

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