Day 5 – Bus Tour

We woke up at about 7:30 today, but I did wake up as few times as I have half transferred to this time zone. We left at about 9am for some breakfast at a nearby café, which was really good. I ordered bacon and eggs with hot chocolate and orange juice. The hot chocolate was so strong! Very chocolaty! We then returned the room to pack up a bag for the day and head out for a sightseeing bus tour.

We walked to the Meseum Nacional Del Prado and took some photos before boarding the bus to tour around. There are twop roites for the buses, today we took route 2. here were some great sights around, old buildings and such but importantly I made it to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, the stadium for Real Madrid. It was great I could not believe how great it was. It was 16 euros for a ticket and you could tour all the parts of the stadium at your own pace. We got to see the stadium from the stands, the trophy room with all of Madrids trophies, the pitch where you were able to sit in the seats, the dressing rooms, the presidents box, the press room and the players tunnel. It was just great. After leaving the stadium we continued the route on the bus before stopping for some lunch. After lunch our daily rest was taken, before going out for some coffee and donuts.

At around 7:30 we went out for dinner, searching for a decent place to eat. Madrid is not what I expected in terms of tourism, Paris and Rome I remember are much better for travellers, so Madrids restaurant/café scene isn’t really helpful, there’s not that many and not that many varieties. But we settled for a burger at a nearby café and ate that for dinner. We returned at around 8:45pm (its still around 35 and humid outside and very sunny). By 10pm it was still humid and bright! We headed off to bed at around 10:30 exhausted!