Madrid

This has been a great if short stop. Madrid is a lovely city to walk around, or bus or metro if you are lazy. Lots of galleries, and I spent most of yesterday in the Prado and did not do it justice. Today I found the Naval museum - remarkable place, really interesting if you like old ships and weapons, it was great fun to cruise around it............
The Bot Gardens are also pretty impressive and lovely to walk in, and there was an exhibition based on Dylan´s song Hard Rain - deeply moving photos aligned to the text of the song, and a plea for work to help diminish global warming.

Then I found the Reina Sofia art gallery - all modern, heaps of Picasso including Guernica, and lots of Miro also. Huge place, very good.

Found some jazz - outside the art gallery, a band playing - bass, trumpet, clarinet, sax and two accordions!! they do multiply! they were really quite good and I have a little video clip of them.

Tonight having drinks with one friend and dinner with another who is really a relation even though I am not quite sure of the relationship! then a 3.30 start for the connecting flight from Madrid to Frankfurt, then to New York. Seems bizarre to be in three countries in one day, I must say. Even though it will be a very long day.....................