EFT to Madrid!

Our Educational Field Trip this semester was to Madrid. We left on a Tuesday and returned on Saturday, so it was considerably longer than most of the other trips I’ve gone on. Again, my favorite part was walking around looking at the city (/shopping).
On Tuesday, we checked into our hotel and went to this cute little Spanish restaurant for dinner.
Wednesday, we visited the town of Toledo. This was a medieval town, and it has a moat encircling most of it. Toledo is also known for their steel-making factories. We also saw some cathedrals, temples, and mosques. That night we went to a Flamenco show! It wasn’t really how I expected it to be. The show is supposed to be telling a story, which I guess is normally about anger or frustration, because both of the dancers looked either mad or like they were about to cry the entire time they were dancing. I’m not sure if I liked it that much, I think I prefer more musical/happy style of entertainment.
Thursday we visited the Prado museum in the morning. Here is the Garden of Earthly Delights, which is one of the most famous pieces in the museum. We had the rest of the day free after that. Some people decided to take trips to some neighboring cities, but a few of us just stayed in Madrid. We went shopping a little, and then went to this huge park for a few hours. I’ve decided that Europeans don’t care as much about being sued as Americans do. There was a playground, so of course, we wanted to go play on it. It was fun, but I couldn’t imagine anything like this being in America. They had this one thing that you stood on, with a bar you had to hold onto, then you swung yourself around really fast. I’ll just say there were definitely a few times when I was scared I was about to fall off. We found a lake with some row boats, so we took an hour to go row ourselves across the lake. Eventually, we made our way to the other side of the park, and returned back to the hotel to rest for a couple hours. That night, a large group of us went out to dinner at… Hard Rock Café. Authentic, I know.
Friday we took another trip to a monastery/ home of Phillip II. That night we went to a Symphony. Then, on Saturday, went to the Reina Sophia museum, before heading back for Heidelberg.

The Park:

Toledo:

The Prado:

the playground

My Roommates! We got matching shirts: