Spring break in Madrid

A very quick midweek-trip to spring in Madrid and back: we spent three days at the Art Fair ARCO Madrid to look for inspiration and collect ideas for a few empty walls back home with the added bonus of catching some warm breeze.

Plaza Mayor

Iberico Ham and Tapas

In Parque del Buen Retiro  or "El Retiro" in the centre of the city  people were enjoying the first sun.

The Crystal Palace

Thuja topiary

no dogs, please!

 Prado

 Hieronymus Bosch's ("El Bosco") "Garden of Earthly Delights" from the early 1500s, which looks like a prophetic science fiction work. 

Schattenspiele

Museum Sorolla in Sorolla's Andalusian style villa in the old banking quarter of Madrid : 

Evening at the Royal Palace. We met old acquaintances - cranes with their characteristic talking noise flew over in thousands in  V-formation on their way back north to Scandinavia. Will we see them over Berlin next week?