Exploring Madrid

Well, we've moved on from Lisbon and uh this morning we flew from Lisbon to Madrid and uh this is our first stop on our multi-day stop in Madrid and that is right here is the Plaza Mayor. Plenty of places to choose from to eat. old Spanish architecture and I am looking forward to going through the process of choosing one of these uh one of these places on the on the plaza to have dinner tonight. So, it should be a very interesting couple of days. And here it is. My incredible >> Look at that thing. >> My gosh. >> Oh my god. >> Oh. Oh. Uh, so here's the Plaza Mayor at night. We uh just finished eating and uh taking a little trip to the gelato place for Lisa for her dessert. >> And uh you know about an hour ago this place was hopping. Now it's about I don't know 10:30 11:00 10:45 starting to settle down a little bit. But uh this was a really really great first evening here. We stayed here for the ambiance. There's hundreds of other places that I want to eat here that I've seen in Madrid. And uh it's going to be uh be a great couple of days in the uh culinary gastronomical uh department. Okay. So this is the mo de hamon. So we got to look at the >> mo de hamon. Yeah. So, we got we gota look at the hammon in here. And here they are and 50 leg of ham and take it home with €29 a kilo for that one. Special €39. 55 a kilo. So, obviously I'm not a hone expert. understand what the difference is. Got the 1350. Here we go. More up here. More up here. I'm going to I'm going to have to come into here and have lunch one day. Dessert cuts will come up. I'm not completely ignorant of what they uh what they are. >> All right, we're strolling up one of the walking pedestrian areas here in Madrid at this place with the terron. I don't quite understand. We have >> almond >> and we have the mo. It's almond candy and chocolate cake and this quaint. We're at this point in time, we're looking for our afternoon gelato. I think we'll find some. >> We can find a Guinness here >> pretty soon. Turkish food. All right. Every direction is something interesting. Let's go. >> We came from there. >> Let's go this way. >> Did we not come from there? >> No, I Beautiful building here in the early evening. >> Wa. >> Well, we don't know what's happening here today, but there are a heck of a lot of planes flying over. Wow. What is going on here today? We were in our uh Airbnb. We heard a bunch of uh fighter jets going over and we wondered what was going on. Now we're out walking and we see all these planes >> and we asked an old guy and he said it was an annual event. >> So, we don't know what it is, but that's pretty cool. There it is. Wow. Now we're getting to the helicopters. >> It's a parade. >> It is a hair parade. It's a fountain in the middle of some random intersection here. >> So I'm back. Go to Roso de Hmon to get myself a sandwich. >> And there's going to get little boadio. I'm only queso. >> And here's my sandwich from the del hamon. I took it out because I wanted to uh eat in the botanical garden, but I can't quite find a way into the botanical garden. So, I'm just going to eat my sandwich here in the middle of this little parkway in the middle of the road. Wow, check out this vertical wall here. It's pretty cool. Uhoh, >> that's cool. >> So, we're about to go into a park, but on this side there's a big old structure here. Beautiful architecture apartment building, plus >> the architecture is interesting. >> Plus this other building here, which we have no clue what it is. >> They got something interesting up here on the hill. We're going to wait and go into the park. All right. So, we're about to go into park and through the uh the Puerto del Soul on Hel Kaido uh which is the uh the gate of the fallen angel. So, this is uh uh much like Central Park in New York, quite big. And off we go. Multiple paths here. fountain and looks like a little place to get some food refreshments over here. >> Wow. Glad we came here. This is I'm glad we came here. This is just a really pretty little bridge. Nice little creek here. The ducks coming up on the Crystal Palace. Now we know why it's called the Crystal Palace. >> As I suspected, didn't you? >> I didn't know why. >> You didn't? >> Yeah. I thought maybe they might have I don't know, emeralds and sapphires. Uh, it's temporarily closed unfortunately as they have some maintenance work to do. So, we can't get in. Google was right. It was temporarily closed, but we came here anyhow. Looking out on the steps of the Crystal Palace. Got some street performers over here. It's really beautiful here. No, it's not this. I think it's a Palasio de Velasquez. But uh the museum hina Sophia uh owns this and uses it as a uh as another exhibition area. So hopefully we've still got enough time to go in here. It is about 5:20. probably closes at 6, but we may be able to sneak in because we should be able to use our pass, our ticket that we bought earlier in the day for uh for the Karina Sophia. Here it is, the Palacio de Velasquez. Well, the uh the temporary exhibits here in the uh Alas de Velasquez were pretty uninspiring. There are a lot of empty walls. Um, based on what we saw here, we would not recommend you coming and uh and using your valuable time in Madrid to come to this place unless you seen something you especially want to see. Wow. Here's the lake at the park. Could rent a rowboat. Unfortunately, uh, we would do that. Unfortunately, we have a flamco show a little later on and uh we are we don't have the time for that. But that looks like so much fun. I'd get in that boat, let uh Lisa do the uh do the paddling, do the rowing there, and I just sit back and be the king. A couple places to have some snacks, place to eat here. This is just a beautiful place, you know, to spend uh spend some time. relaxing time >> and uh it's uh we this was never really on our itinerary. Did want to sort of see the place and uh we've we've uh done a good job here of come coming to the park and uh and really enjoying a couple hours we spent here. >> Another fountain in the park. coming out of the park. >> Wow, it's just beautiful here. So, another little square here surrounded by restaurants. We are going to check out some menus and decide where we're going to be eating after the flamingco show. Well, just check out the tile wall of this place, this restaurant actually. We got this one. And then across the little road, we got this This must be, as Luca said, this is must be the uh Italian section. Well, here we are at the Plaza de la Villa. Don't know what it's famous for, but uh obviously it's famous for something cuz big tour groups here. Everyone's taking pictures. We'll try to find figure that out later and tell you in the comments. It's >> not the most scenic. >> And you know the lock here >> in La Plaza Mayor. >> Today we are going to venture into the Madrid Metro. We've done a lot of walking the last few days. I've been doing about seven miles. So, uh we're going to uh take the metro today. This is only about three blocks from our Airbnb. So, in good shape now. It's always the uh it's always a little difficult navigating the metro system. Right here we do. And uh going to figure out what we what we need to do here. Okay. >> Oh, good. >> Insert purchase. We have to purchase the transport. >> And just like that, her card pops out. >> All righty. >> And it's got one journey on it. >> Okay. That was €4, right? >> Yep. I probably should have taken that. >> Okay. Yep. >> You want to do mine? >> You have recharged one metro single ticket. Okay. Yes. I'm going to do yours. Here it comes from the top. >> Why did that say the uh that >> and here we are the inside subway. Clean, reasonable. Of course, it's 2:00 in the afternoon. Not too crowded. It's not the rush hour traffic, but we don't have a seat. So, it is uh pretty uh pretty traffic. There's one of the big traffic circles here. Fountain in the middle. Got the uh Ministry of Agriculture right over here, right next to the train station. All right, as we continue looking for breakfast. And here's our breakfast. Check it out. >> Oh my god. >> Look at our location. >> And this is how I envision my retirement. Sitting here on the little outdoor cafe being surrounded by fountains. Great food. >> Dipping churros in chocolate. Oh my god. >> Remember the place we had breakfast at is El Briante. Well, today before our train trip to Barcelona, have a little bit of time. So, we're going to go into the Museum of Anthropology, which is right across the street from the Toa train station. So, uh we're going to go in here and um see what they got. >> All right, here we're going to the museum. Animal fight started there in the Philippines. Now these are interesting little Hawaii figures here. So, Lisa, what did you think of the museum? >> Well, it wasn't what I expected at all. >> No, it wasn't what I expected either cuz I misread the map. I thought it was the Museum of uh of uh what I think it was >> archaeology. Archaeology. >> But when we didn't see any dinosaur bones or anything, we realized it was a museum of anthropology. Yeah. >> And I mean, it was it was really perfect for only having an hour or so of energy before leaving Madrid to visit a museum. And we learned about the peoples of uh the Americas, Africa, Asia, and about the Chilean coup. But weirdly, there was nothing about the peoples of Spain. >> Yeah. >> But still, it was really interesting. >> It was interesting. It, you know, allowed us to kill an hour or so. >> Exactly. And uh >> did what we needed it to do. >> Yeah. It was more interesting for Lisa than me, but uh nonetheless, you know, you got some time that you really want to kill, you can come here. But pretty inexpensive. >> Yeah. Because it's €3 for Lisa. But uh no, >> I wouldn't put it at the top of your list. >> Definitely not. >> But hop on in to the Museum of Anthropology. >> And until next time, may your suitcase always be messy. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel and ring that bell to be notified of upcoming videos.