some sparse updates from a lazy traveler
By Tamika Whitenack
Long time, no post! It has been very busy and I am somewhat daunted with how to capture it all in a blog post, so I think you will be getting lists and pictures.
I just returned from a trip to Madrid with my friend. Temperatures climbed above 100 but we very much survived, thanks to a lot of water drinking and strategically timed activities indoors (though tbh, mainly we stayed outside in the sun roughing it haha).
Before Madrid, I had a week of fun with the family!! It was lovely to see them and do some sightseeing, and we even had a few days of fun inter-family activity with my host family. I'll put pictures here but I am too lazy to write everything we did, so if you want more details, you can ask them...hehehehe
In the two days between my family's departure and my Madrid trip, which were Tuesday and Wednesday, I started a new experience: volunteering at a church-run soup kitchen! I can go for about two hours in the morning for the two morning meal shifts that they serve, and then I still have my internship in the afternoon. The experience reminds me a lot of the soup kitchen type of volunteering I've done in the United States, although this is probably the most religious environment. I'm hoping to continue this as long as I have free mornings, but this upcoming week is also big on wedding work, so we'll see. More updates to come!
Madrid
Long time, no post! It has been very busy and I am somewhat daunted with how to capture it all in a blog post, so I think you will be getting lists and pictures.
I just returned from a trip to Madrid with my friend. Temperatures climbed above 100 but we very much survived, thanks to a lot of water drinking and strategically timed activities indoors (though tbh, mainly we stayed outside in the sun roughing it haha).
Before Madrid, I had a week of fun with the family!! It was lovely to see them and do some sightseeing, and we even had a few days of fun inter-family activity with my host family. I'll put pictures here but I am too lazy to write everything we did, so if you want more details, you can ask them...hehehehe
In the two days between my family's departure and my Madrid trip, which were Tuesday and Wednesday, I started a new experience: volunteering at a church-run soup kitchen! I can go for about two hours in the morning for the two morning meal shifts that they serve, and then I still have my internship in the afternoon. The experience reminds me a lot of the soup kitchen type of volunteering I've done in the United States, although this is probably the most religious environment. I'm hoping to continue this as long as I have free mornings, but this upcoming week is also big on wedding work, so we'll see. More updates to come!
Madrid
Thursday
- Airport to metro
- Late lunch at Tapas place
- Retiro park: lake, cristal palace, gardens
- Puerta de Alcalá
- Prado museum
- Reina Sofía museum
- Pupuseria: so cheap, so yummy, so much cabbage to eat!
- Gelato
Friday
- Puerta de sol
- La mallorquina bakery
- Plaza mayor
- Mercado San Miguel
- City hall
- Palacio real, toured inside to see some very lavish rooms
- Gardens behind palace
- Cathedral, because everywhere has a giant church
- Puente de Segovia, wanted to see the river, it was v small tbh
- Calamari bocadillo, more cheap and good food!
- Puerte de Toledo
- Chocolateria San Gines for porras and chocolate
- Circulo de bellas artes for a rooftop view
- Gran vía for a large street with shops (did we shop? no, just walking haha)
- Plaza espanya....was under construction but we saw some nice plans for what its supposed to look like hahaha
- Temple of Debod
- Takos al Pastor, also cheap, also good,
- Sports bar to watch the USA France game!! but most of the other people were there for the Argentina-Venezuela mens game, it was a loud and sweaty experience hahaha
Saturday: Toledo
- Bridge
- Puerta de bisagra
- Museum de Santa Cruz, art
- Alcazar, a tall building with military history
- Cathedral
- Jewish quarter
- Monasterio
- Bridge
- Trail along the river back to the first bridge
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| cava and cupcakes |
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| sagrada familia windows |
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| mar and me in the gothic quarter! |
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| park guell |
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| more park guell |
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| fountain, looks like gaudi to me |
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| chocolate and churros |
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| park ciutadella fountain |
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| inside hospital sant pau, it is no longer a hospital but v cool architecture! |
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| at the beach |
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| concert hall before our show |
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| paella |
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| wildflowers |
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| watching the game with the fam |
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| coca, traditional cake/bread for san joan |
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| the beach, packed for san joan festivities |
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| vall de nuria, pretty mountains! |
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| sagrada familia from the towers |
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| outside the hospital |
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| mommy and mussels <3 |
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| nuria again, so gorgeous! |
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| a small cave on our hike |
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| a mountain view |
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| more views, framed by pines |
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| black banana slug! |
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| water |
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| food adventure |
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| at the pupuseria |
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| so i ate like 10x that amount of cabbage fyi |
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| gelato |
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| pastries in madrid |
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| calamari bocadillo |
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| porras are thick churros, basically |
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| rose garden in retiro park |
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| pretty sure photos werent allowed, oops! |
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| oso y madroño |
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| palace |
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| view from inside |
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| view from the back |
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| each of those was only $1! can you find mine (the one with cactus instead of meat) |
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| and i was also feeling a quesadilla |
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| caught eating acid |
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| toledo, feat. the river, bridge, and alcazar |
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| toledo cathedral |
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| inside the monastery |
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| from our river walk |
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