On my fourth day in Madrid, I spent the day rather lazily. I got up and spent some time on the computer, booking hostels for the rest of my trip and reserving tickets for the Alhamabra in Granada. I then headed out to the Museo Reina Sofia, which is Madrid's modern art museum. I've been to MoMA several times and enjoyed it, so I figured I would enjoy this museum, but I did not. I was rather tired, and just didn't "get" most of the art. I did enjoy the Picasso works they had, especially Guernica. I ended up being so tired that I only toured one floor of the four floor museum. I bailed from the museum, and got a mediocre lunch nearby.
After lunch, I decided to go to Retiro, which is a 350 acre park near the museum. It used to be the private grounds of the royal family, but was opened up as a public park. It was beautiful. I wandered around the park, and eventually found a good spot to read my book. I settled in for a while and read, until it started raining a bit, so I decided to head back.
That evening, Astrid and I went out to dinner. I received a recommendation from April (my friend that I met in Rome) which happened to be just around the corner from our hostel. It was actually a really awesome little place... it was kind of dive-y, but it was on the top floor of a 6 or 7 story building, so it had a great view. We were able to sit outside on a balcony and enjoy the sunset, along with copious amounts of fried foods. After dinner, we headed back to the hostel and shared music recommendations and talked. We both decided to call it an early evening.
The funny watches the hostel gave us that were actually keys to our rooms and lockers.
Shots of the hostel common room.
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