This is all my jet-lagged self was able to capture today. Maybe it’s all the summer tourists, but much of the afternoon wandering about Madrid could have easily passed for London, Munich or Stockholm. Of course, it could simply be the fact that cities this old have an appearance so distinct from our land that the concentrations of Germans and British wherever we visited simply overcame the “Spanish-ness” of the place.
I suspect that we will remedy this by trip’s end.

Well, you can tell it’s not Munich by the size of the beer…
Did you see the European Grand Prix in Valencia?
If not, why not?
Fernando Alonzo, the Spaniard won the race and I see Spain went crazy!
Dad