Sunday, August 14, 2011

Artistic Madrid Day and Night

nicolekiss and palace of madrid





My trip in Madrid was brief but fun, with lots of silly posy photos.



It was nearing Christmas so the spirit was up in the air as I checked into my cozy guesthouse.



christmas sitting





christmas deco





Unfortunately, I landed in the city during a long weekend holiday and everywhere in the city was packed with tourists from other cities and neigbouring countries.



crowd at the plaza





There were plentiful of art galleries in Madrid, as it turned out, for visits. And though I've had enough of museums, I thought it wouldn't hurt to visit one to check out the buzz.



Turned out even that was impossible to do.



the queue to art collection museum in madrid

This queue is as long as it seems and even longer. The queue bent of both ends of the four blocks of buildings.



Here's a large photo of it in 1000 pixels.





Why was there such a long queue?



Folks, this was just a typical long weekend holiday in Madrid. Yes, those are tourists. And no there isn't an iPhone sale going on.



In fact it's a queue into the art gallery at the corner.



queue to the museum





Which I wanted to visit but decided against it for obvious reason. o.O





Here are two photos taken while I was standing in the middle of the queue, taken from both sides.



On left,

queue 1





On right,

queue 2

I never knew the Spanish people were so big on arts till... this!





So I went to visit the palace instead.



nicolekiss and palace of madrid 2





walking out of the palace

me on my audio guide (which I rented)





with my audio guide





peace sign





five





me and korean friend

funny korean guy and I





palace of madrid





one of the gates





still on my audio guide

insistent on listening to my audio guide, absorbing history knowledge





winter me in spain





front hall of palace





angels ceiling

cathedral next to the palace





stabbed jesus





jesus

eerie photo of Jesus with a stab wound





palace cathedral





centre of a filled cathedral

the service hasn't started yet so I went to stand in the middle and took this photo

applaud for my bravery and shamelessness. :p





Went to have Mcdonald for lunch. Spanish Mcdonald!



bacon bits burger





I had this version of the burger that has bacon bits sprinkled on the bun. It's super yummy!



me and mcd burger in spain





Went to the park,



the park





the malaysian jump

my jump





the korean jump

funny korean guy's jump





I took a better photo. :p





the fountain

fountain with no water





the canals

romantic canal-ing?





the duck

duck!





me at a tree bark

romantic shot of me under a tree wtf





roller blade and bicycle

happy spanish couple





strolling backward

the art of walking backward





the pose

the art of posing backward fml





blek

'ngeh' look in the park





A very artistic wall made of grass arstically grown vertically.



the artistic grass wall

haha





On to Madrid at night. Spanish night?



light building





statue

statue!! must take photo of statue!





saw a shop with lots of aprons.



aprons





The lady at the shop sew my name on a piece of paper as a souvenier.



sewing





my name in string

my name!





She was smiling before this but because she didn't understand when I asked her to pose with my sewn name while I take a photo, she got a bit tense. I made her tense. :(





nice building

very pretty night shot of a building in between street





another nice building





I saw these candle holders that were SOOOOO pretty.



pretty candle holders





I wanted to buy them but I might break them on my travels. :S :(



candle holders





candle holder





paris at night on a jar





And then I left Madrid and went on to visit the biggest Gothic Cathedral in the world.



That's all for Madrid!

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