Today I was supposed to wake up (relatively) early and go to the Rastro - a giant outdoor craft fair/flea market sort of thing, but my alarm didn't go off and I slept until 11. Noticing a pattern here?
In the evening, though, I met my two co-interns Romina and Erin to go to the Prado, and I found myself again seeing things that I hadn't seen before. Someone's feet started hurting so we left early, but even on our way out I saw rooms and thought, "I don't think I've seen this room yet, have I?" Even after three visits, I still haven't seen everything. Make no mistake - it is an *enormous* museum filled with *enormous* amounts of awesome paintings and sculptures from every imaginable era - Roman and Pre-Roman statues, medieval Christian frescoes, all the way up to modern photorealistic paintings. But Goya, the nothing-special darling of Spanish art, takes up a quarter of the entire museum.
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