Thursday, September 15
We set the alarm (horror of horrors) this morning as we wanted to get an early start to go and visit the Prado Museum as we had purchased our tickets online last night. We caught the Metro, walked the 15 minutes to the Prado, and were about to join the fast track queue to get our tickets when we realised we had left the iPad at the apartment! This was a deliberate decision as we knew we couldn't take pictures inside - but the proof of our ticket purchase was sitting in an Adobe file on the iPad!! We both laughed at our short term memory lapse, then headed back to the station to go and get it from the apartment. An hour later we finally entered the Prado around 11:30! The queues to get in are always very long so we were glad we had bought our tickets to avoid another wait after our later start.
We covered all of the 1st floor, which was predominantly Spanish painters like Goya, Greco, Ribera and Velazquez, but also had a good collection of Flemish and Italian painters as well as other famous names from different countries. By the time we had covered about half of the ground floor we were starting to get cultural overload, as well as hungry! It was a great experience to get up close and personal to so many masterpieces, but nearly 4 hours was enough.
We adjourned to a nearby cafe for another enjoyable lunch, then returned to the apartment to pack in preparation for our flight to Bordeaux tomorrow.
We set the alarm (horror of horrors) this morning as we wanted to get an early start to go and visit the Prado Museum as we had purchased our tickets online last night. We caught the Metro, walked the 15 minutes to the Prado, and were about to join the fast track queue to get our tickets when we realised we had left the iPad at the apartment! This was a deliberate decision as we knew we couldn't take pictures inside - but the proof of our ticket purchase was sitting in an Adobe file on the iPad!! We both laughed at our short term memory lapse, then headed back to the station to go and get it from the apartment. An hour later we finally entered the Prado around 11:30! The queues to get in are always very long so we were glad we had bought our tickets to avoid another wait after our later start.
We covered all of the 1st floor, which was predominantly Spanish painters like Goya, Greco, Ribera and Velazquez, but also had a good collection of Flemish and Italian painters as well as other famous names from different countries. By the time we had covered about half of the ground floor we were starting to get cultural overload, as well as hungry! It was a great experience to get up close and personal to so many masterpieces, but nearly 4 hours was enough.
We adjourned to a nearby cafe for another enjoyable lunch, then returned to the apartment to pack in preparation for our flight to Bordeaux tomorrow.
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