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26/2-9/3 2000

Madrid and Seville

Henning Nielsen
2005-09-21 19:04:45

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again I have to go to the black market to get a ticket. But the price was reasonable. There are a crowd of 45.000 people to this match - that is class from the homecrowd. Valladolid gets a man sent off early in the match - Seville is in control - but they loose the game 1-0, when Valladolid scores on their only chance in this game - not good for the home team.

Monday 6. march

Exit Seville - back to Madrid on AVE - and unfortunately no deleys this time as well.

Back in Madrid - and going to my old hotel for the last few nights on this trip. This day in spend on walking around - looking on streets, houses and people.

Tuesday 7. march

Time -again - to go to Segovia. This time from the right terminal, so this time I succeed. Segovia is also about an hours drive from Madrid og is best known for the aquaduct, that passes high above city-centre. It's carnival-time in Segovia so a lot of children is dressed up and behaves madly. There are very few tourists - this is out-of-season. And the toy-theathres are playing - seems to be a very popular thing among kids around here.

The town is very nice to stroll around - very beautiful - and much more than the aquaduct.

Wednesday 8. march

Today I do something that is very rare to me - I visit a famous art-museum - the world-famous Prado. And god knows this is not an area where I consider myself an expert - but it is very impressing - and a lot of paintings. Some of them are very famous - why some are masterpieces and others are not, I really dont know - but thankfully you can always recall the masterpieces by the huge amount of people gathered around them. Goya and Valázquez seems to be ghe Effenberg and Roberto Carlos of this place. And if you dont care about the paintings you can always watch the people who are her - 1/3 is tourist that read that the guide-books say they should go here - 1/3 is the bourgoise that find it exiting to be here - and 173 are schoolchildren that has been forced to go here and find it very very boring.

The rest of the day I just walk around in the city - now there are no more "must-sees" around.

An ONCE-seller on almost every corner - ONCE is the local organization for the blind selling lottery-tickets (they are also the sponsor for a cycle-team)

Thursday 9. march

Back home today - this has been a great trip. Madrid was exiting (and not very tourist-minded - which I like) - and Sevilla was fantastic. And I have seen some great places around the city's as well.

And the weather - faboulous - sun all the time - not too hot - when they have 25 celsius in Andalusia on this time of the year it must be HOT in summer.

Plane back - back to the rain.