Museo Nacional del Prado

February 21:

We had no need to get up early today as there was no complementary breakfast and once we awoke we idled around the room. Around 11:15am we decided to go out and grab food. The hostel had advertised a 12:45pm walking tour of the city that we though would be a good way to use our first full day in the city. We ended up getting food and a nice little café called Colby. I ordered hot chocolate and churros but was a little surprised by what I got. You see the hot chocolate was the most literal hot chocolate I have ever seen. I would say it would be best described as chocolate fondue in a coffee mug. After a bit of a struggle and some using it as actual fondue for my churros I decided I could not finish this thick and sweet beverage.

We went back to the hostel in a bit of a hurry but made it there for 12:40, unfortunately the tour had already left. It was not a pleasant day out and it had been spitting intermittently as we searched for food so we decided it would be a good day to stay indoors. A few minutes walk took us to Museo Nacional del Prado, one of the world’s foremost art galleries/museums. Unfortunately I was only able to get a few pictures from here since they were pretty strictly against them.

After three or four hours there pat and I were both utterly exhausted. I grabbed a Monster energy drink from a corner store and we headed out to find some food. I grabbed a slice of pizza for 2 euros though Pat was uninterested so our search continued. We ended up back at El Tigre and after I had a small beer and pat had a large we were both stuffed to the brim. We headed back to the hostel to rest and recover as we had hoped to do a pub-crawl that evening.

After a few hours of just recovering from del Prado we started preparing for our night out. I drank a bit of whisky and did some basic work out exercises because I have missed my appointments with the gym greatly. At 8:30 Pat joined me and we drank the second of our two boxes of wine. The pub-crawl convened at 9:45 and cost 12 euros. We would go to three initial bars for forty-five minutes apiece before heading to a club. The first bar had unlimited sangria and beer for us till 11 and the following 2 bars would each have a free tequila shot for us. As some may have anticipated I took all you can drink to be a challenge but after chugging two beers upon arrival I though better and sipped on a beer or 2 for the remainder of our stay. The next two bars were relatively uneventful the first being noteworthy because one of the girls we were with didn’t want her tequila shot so I got hers and the second being of note because that was the point where Pat decided he had had enough to drink and was going to head home. The club wasn’t spectacular but it was fun regardless.