This morning, we had a late start , meeting in the hotel lobby at 9:30, then heading to a Starbucks for breakfast (turns out cinnamon rolls in Spain are less pastry, more muffin texture). We had tickets for the city hop on hop off tour bus today, so we went to our nearest stop, however the bus came and didn't pick anyone up because nobody got off, so we had to walk to the palace, where there was another stop with people getting off and we could get on.
We started with the Madrid Historico route, which was quite interesting, lots of churches and pretty buildings. We went almost all the way around in just over an hour, then got off at Plaza del Sol looking for lunch. We ended up at a sandwich bar, where I had a calamari sandwich for lunch (yum!) and we had to stand because it was a literal bar with barely any chairs!
Then we walked back to the hotel (via the palace) for a siesta for about an hour, then we headed back out to see the rest of the city by tour bus. We caught the same tour bus, then switched routes to Madrid Modernico to see more of the city (including the Real Madrid stadium!). We did almost a full loop again, ending up back at Plaza del Sol for the second time that day.
From there, we walked up to Plaza Mayor, because we had read that there was to be a parade of some kind there for Easter Sunday. We ended up having dinner in the square, as it was getting late, and then stopped at an excellent ice-cream shop near the square (bailey's and brownie!) for the walk back to the hotel for bed.
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