Santa Claus climbing up an apartment building, near the Prado.
At the botanical garden, which is in a big park which surrounds the Prado. This is in the outdoor bonzai garden. The bonzai were pretty neat, some of them obviously very old.
The Prado, one of Europe's great museums. We were lucky because they were also having a Rembrandt exhibition, on loan from another museum. I am happy to report that the Reubens ladies are still as well fed as ever. I got to see the two paintings I really wanted to see, the 3rd of May and 5th of May in Madrid paintings of Goya. They are displayed side by side in a smaller room at the end of the museum. Seeing paintings in a book, of course, is a poor substitute for seeing them in person, if for no other reason than appreciating the size. These paintings are bigger than I thought, probably 10 or 12 feet wide and 8 or so feet tall. 
Cindy on the terrace at the Palacio Real.
Palacio Real, residence of Spanish king, built in the mid-1700s. It was very lavish.
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