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You'll want to find a park bench on which to take a nap. I'd look for one in the departure lounge if you can check in early enough. 6 hours isn't going to give you much of a window to do anything.
Ha, ha! You must be kidding. There is no way I would be wanting to take a nap after a 10 hour overnight flight. I will be flying south to north on the exact same time-line, so there is no jet lag. I really don’t fancy sitting in the departure lounge from 7am to 4pm. I’m still leaning towards the hop-on-hop-off bus for a general overview of Madrid. I think the Prado warrants a full day visit, so feel I should leave that for another visit when I have more time. Jill
Also, as Viranani says, you would need several days to do the Prado justice so, in my opinion, the absolute must-see paintings are those by Zurbaran, Ribera, Goya's 'black' paintings and the magnificent painting of the Deposition of Christ by the Dutch artist Roger Van Der Weyden.
There's no shortage of things to do in Madrid as all these posts have shown, but my two top things would be a long walk in the Retiro park (madrid's Central Park) and a visit to the Sorolla Museum. Sorolla is Spain's preeminent impressionist and the museum is in his lovely home. It is a beautiful peaceful place filled with his work, much of it involving children, children and mothers, and beach scenes. Just beautiful.
Hello!
Peregrina2000, my name is Cathy, my husband and I are doing Camino next year
March 20th to 13th of April and since you live not close by(about 5 hours away),but we're
going to see our friends in Chicago coming of this October, we will be passing by your town.
Just wondering.......I really like to meet with you, if possible. One of My friend suggested spend
time in Madrid. What do you think of this idea of meeting?
Like to hear from you.
From CathyK
IMHO, the conversation feature of the forum (aka personal messaging feature) is, among other things, for personal questions like the ones you are asking to @peregrina2000
If you don't know how to start a conversation, once you are logge-in, look at the upper menu, put your mouse over Inbox and click on Start a New Conversation on the pop-up menu that will show once you put your mouse over Inbox.
P.S.: Maybe, at the time I'm writing this post, peregrina2000 already started a conversation (sent a personal message) with you.
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