This One Has Pictures

Picture time! I’m sorry I’ve been bad about posting them, but I’ve been working a lot. Instead of doing touristy things and gallivanting off somewhere every weekend, I’ve been staying put in Madrid and doing Madrileno things. I’m actually living in Madrid, and sometimes that means doing monotonous things like going to the grocery store and taking the Metro to the same stop every day, five days a week.

Last Monday, we went walking around the apartment because I hadn’t seen that part of town. I wanted exercise, too. Look below for some lövely pictures.

Las fuentes en frente del piso.

Belén being herself

What it looks like from a jogging path near the apartment.

On Tuesday, we went to the Temple of Debod. I thought it was a cheap knockoff of the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan in New York City. However, this is not the case. It’s a real temple given to Spain by Egypt during the 19th Century as a thank-you for helping them save some other temples. The Temple of Debod was outside in a beautiful little park. I am entitled to say that the Met keeps better care of their ancient Egyptian temple than Madrid does, and no one needs to point out that Madrid is in an arid clime which is more similar to Egypt than New York’s climate is.

Temple of Debod

Don Quixote y Sancho Panza

In the words of my brother, "Hewwo!"

After the Temple of Debod, we walked to the end of the park and saw this.

A blurry picture taken from the park near the Temple

A much better picture taken near the building

Palacio Real! I still haven’t been inside yet. That is a project for some other day.

On our little excursion to the Temple and the Palace, one thing really stood out to me: joggers. Joggers were everywhere! Mostly men who looked to be 35 or 40, but there were young women, old men, teenagers. In the space of one minute, I saw about six joggers. That's even more than the numbers of joggers and cyclists on Wasatch Boulevard back Home in the morning.