Four Days in Madrid
The Palace, designed by the Bourbon French and one of the largest in Europe Work was over, almost, and we were all looking forward to our summer holidays and we had big plans. The cornerstones were surfing in Portugal, walking in Corsica and climbing in Italy but we had breaks between each of these phases. Ernest Hemingway loved Spain, bull fighting and Martha Gelhorn and this was supposedly his favourite place to drink beer in Madrid Our first break was before we had even started, Madrid. We have not seen a lot of Spain apart from a couple of days in Barcelona and a couple of lunches in San Sebastian while on a surfing trip to the south of France. So we decided to fly to Portugal with a stop over for a few days in Madrid. The order of Trinitarians, dedicated to securing the release of Christian captive who secured the release of Michael Cervantes who later wrote Don Quixote If we hoped for a break from the...