Yay my mom and my cousin Victoria visited this past week and weekend. It was really nice to be able to see my family since I have been here for 2 months so it was great to be able to see them at the half waypoint of my trip. Ok so I am going to divide their trip into the various days that they are here because we did a lot during their visit and I got to be a typical tourist in Madrid, which was a lot of fun. So they got here on Saturday and I meet them in the Plaza de Cervantes so we could all check into the hotel in Alcala. We stayed in Hotel Bedel, which was right in the center of Alcala and was really nice. It was great staying in a hotel because I was able to not worry about making my bed and just hanging around. Then we went out to lunch at Café Libros where my mom and Victoria had their first experience with Spanish tortilla, which is basically eggs and potatoe cooked together and put on bread. After we headed into Madrid on the train. First we went to the Museo de Romantisto (or the Romantic Museum). This is a museum that was just recently remodeled and is placed in an old romantic mansion. All the rooms represent the different types of furniture and decorations of the romantic period, including various types of artwork and such. We were given a booklet about the museum and all the rooms were numbered so we would read the descriptions about the various rooms, which was really nice so I knew what I was looking at.
Ballroom in the Museo de Romantisto
After this museum we headed to the Reina Sofia, which is a famous museum in Madrid that has artwork that ranges from all time periods. The most famous painting that is housed in this museum is Picasso’s Guernia. This painting took up and entire wall in the museum and is in black and white. It represents the attack on Guernica during the Spain Civil War on April 26, 1937. This was such a horrible attack because German places attacked the town of Guernica, which was a civilian town. This was the first time during a war that a innocent civilian population was targeted. The painting shows a house with people inside that are caught on fire. There is also a house and bull in the painting, which are symbols of Spain. After the Renia Sofia everyone was really tired from the traveling and time difference so we headed back to Alcala to go out to dinner. We went to this restaurant that was in the plaza by the hotel that was called Stromboli, which is clearly Italian. It was really good and after that we just went to sleep and prepare for the next day.
Guernica
(we weren't suppose to take pictures but I sneaked on in)
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