Heading to Madrid

We are heading to Madrid!

 

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Back to Madrid and Home

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Bullet Train Valencia to Madrid Alvaro overlooking Cathy Champagne to Celebrate Negative Test Dr. administering COVID Tests to allow us to return to US Fabulous Confit (maybe) of Artichokes White Asparagus Turbo Cheese Cake and Amaretto Crowds Celebrate Madrid beats Liverpool in Soccer We took the bullet train from Valencia back to Madrid where we returned to The Principal Hotel and checked in. We were given a suite overlooking the plaza once again. We didn’t realize it at the time but there was a major Soccer game Madrid vs Liverpool. The whole town was in a state of excitement.   We did a preliminary pack for our trip home tomorrow and awaited the doctor for our Covid test required for our return to US. It is absurd, the US has far more COVID cases than anywhere else in the world. And the US doesn’t require people to take a test to fly domestically. It is all COVID theater. The Doctor came to our hotel and administered a rapid test. It was different the ones we hav...
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Paella in the Albufera

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  Hoisting the Paella Pans Lake Albufera, where they grow Bomba Rice Rice Liquor Paella Inspection Paella Passed the Inspection! Perfect Patatas Bravas Why can't we take Parsifal out with us? White Asparagus Beautiful Modernist Style Market Unusually Shaped Tomatoes, wonder what they taste like The Water Tribunal  When we awakened, we asked ourselves, why are we staying in this hotel? The room was nice, we had a private patio, but we thought the service sucked, and the bed was hard. We had to decide if we wanted to switch to a better hotel. The obvious answer was Hell Yes! We quickly secured a reservation at the Westin Valencia, a luxury hotel in every way. We packed up and took our luggage to our much nicer new digs. Since it was only 11:30am we checked in but couldn’t go to our rooms, which hadn’t been cleaned yet.  We then taxied to The Water Court (Tribunal de Las Aguas). The Tribunal meets outside the Door of the main Cathedral, every Thursday at noon, keeping a...
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We Found the Stolen South American Gold!

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