Day 23 - Blogabond

We have an appointment with Vincent Van Gough this morning. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has an exhibit of paintings from the last 90 days of Van Gough’s life, prior to his suicide. He had a very tortured soul, but the beautiful paintings of this period certainly didn’t show it. There was also an exhibit of Richard Este’s paintings, which is also one of our favorite contemporary artists so it was a real bonus. This was our favorite art museum so far and we have been in a lot of museums the last few weeks.

Our laundry we had asked the hotel to do was back in our room upon our return. The bill was 168 Euro. It was probably the most well pressed laundry we ever had or ever will have. I told Paul that it just showed how much I was worth back at home. He was skeptical about that as he hasn’t had pressed shirts since leaving home at age 18. Anyway, so much for the deal we had gotten on the room rate.

Paul needed a new watch battery and was going to get us train tickets for the next portion of the trip so he headed in one direction and Mark and I went to the Wax Museum. This was Marks choice, and it was a lot of history about Spain, but all in Spanish so I did not catch a good deal of it. (I would say that this is a miss of you are planning time in Madrid.)

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pscossette on July 10, 2007 from Madrid, Spain

from the travel blog: The Cossette Family Sabbatical

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