Madrid Day 2

El Corte Ingles, a huge department store chain in Spain


The ham section in the El Corte supermarket. Spanish people love their hams, hams hanging everywhere. They also love their wines, wine is almost cheaper than water, we should just switch to drinking wines. They sell wine in paper cartons, like our fruit juices or milk..


Plaza Mayor


Cute guy at the Tourist information, very helpful too.


One of the roads/alleys leading away from Plaza Mayor


Caricarture drawing guy in Plaza Mayor, nice flamingo dancer


tapas for lunch, at a restaurant which opens at 1.30pm, but we were there at 1 and stood outside the door. The restaurant decided to be nice and let us in, switched on the aircon and put on English music. Haha. We were their only sitting customers from the time we went in to the time when we left. Classy looking mineral water and bread


Tomato-cheesy spread for bread


Octopus which beef ostracised.


Potato omelette


Forgot what this is called, it's a chocolaty thing with vanilla ice cream.


Us with waiter in empty restaurant. Waiter was very nice, ganged up with us against beef.


Catedral de La Almudena. Very big cathedral


Palacio Real. A palace which was closed on that day because of some official function. Looks so deserted.


Here's a shot from the back of it


What's that? Sky! What's that? Sky! What's that? Sky..la! Haha. Xiaohui says this makes us look like we are on some really high mountain.


Factory outlet. Known to the Madrid people as Factory. lots of clothes stores, but either not very cheap, or more commonly, have some weird cuttings that I look horrible in. Only bought 1 tshirt from Mango.