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Madrid, Spain
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April 4th, 2017
The verdict is in. Madrid is awesome. So full of energy & life like many large European cities are but it is also a city with a soul.
It is full of lazy, drunk, begging gypsies too, but that is another story. After a lazy morning catching up on this blog & having brekkie, I headed out to the Prado Museum which was just down the road from my hotel.
Having spent 25 euros online to purchase a ‘jump the queue’ ticket, I started my cultural immersion. (of course I walked out & found I could have bought it for 15 Euros….)
To be honest if you are into art history – awesome. This place is full of, sometimes very large paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, Rubens, Panini (who knew sandwiches could paint?) and a few Spanish blokes like Goya & Venezquales.
The best bit – sculptures of the Greek gods from AD 50. Yes that is almost 100% of our 2017 years. Made me feel a little less old.
Not a sculpture of the Greek gods
But back to the MLC – what did I learn?
1. The church & nobility had all the money & power, so a lot of art is about an interpretation of religious events with a large degree of self aggrandisement.
2. Before photography this was the only way to record events.
3. A lot of the subjects of the paintings were middle aged men. Did they face the same MLC challenge as modern day men? To ponder these questions and with a couple of hours to kill, I sat in a plaza in the sun & drank Cervaza before heading to Porto tonight.
MLC THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Maybe an MLC is an opportunity to get a painting done? What would I look like as a reclining nude? (Rubenesque!) Riding a horse perhaps? Reclining on a horse naked?
STEPS: 16,716
SPANISH RATING: 2/10. Getting more understood now just in time to go to Portugal
WEIGHT: 89.7 I reckon
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