Up to the Santiago Bernabeu today to collect tickets for tomorrows match and to view the stadium on an off day. The route was quite similar to Barcelona and again they have way too many trophies and achievements listed in their museum. Overall I don't think the stadium was quite as good though. Went to nearby El Retiro which is one of the larger parks in Madrid, they have a lake where you can go boating! and a cool Crystal Palace building, but it was closed and there was nothing inside it. I also managed to smash my head walking under this waterfall on the way there, was sore for hours. Had a break in the afternoon to take care of laundry for the last time - according to the internet there is only three laundromats in all of Madrid, and everyone else owns their own washing machine.
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| The Bernabeu. |
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| The top stand. |
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| Front rows from the other side. |
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| El Retiro Park. |
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| Crystal Palace at El Retiro Park. |
Amir was too tired to keep going, so I went off to Las Ventas Bullring to have a look around. It looked in great condition, but they didn't have any tour or access inside that I could see. It did look like they had some kind of event scheduled for the evening, I wasn't really interested in seeing that though. Close by at O'Donnell was this tower marked on my map, so I went to find out what that was, and discovered it was just some crappy radio or tv tower. I also took the train down to Oporto a little bit outside the city, so that I could say I've been to fake Oporto and to find out if there was anything Portugese about the place. It did not look like there was.
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| Outside Las Ventas. |
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| Las Venturas would have been a better name. |
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