Firstly, we found a good place for breakfast - croissant, fresh orange juice, tea and coffee - it's not easy in Madrid, but we found a spot.
These are some of the buildings we saw along the busy street. This lovely canopy hides a McDonalds sign.
An almost hidden church
The Bank of Spain
Detail form a large roundabouts: Cibeles and Neptune .
The Botanical Gardens
The Retiro gardens are close to the Botanical Gardens and to Atocha railway station. A memorial to those who died in the Atocha bombings in 2004 is there and on the tenth anniversary of the bombings (the day before we were there), relatives and friends left white flowers in the trees as well as photos and notes.. The memorial has many trees like the one in the photo and I suspect that there is one tree for each of the 191 victims.
Panorama of the memorial
In the evening we went out to find tapas, but went via the Plaza Santa Domingo and the Cathedral.
We found an old indoor market that had been transformed into a series of tapas bars.
Pat and John on
