When I was planning on how to spend the last few days of my trip after France, I was originally going to head back to London to do a few things I missed. When I saw the train seat prices I did some comparisons on flight tickets and quickly decided against it. It gave me the perfect excuse to go visit Spain! With the limited time I could only realistically visit one city so the question was Barcelona or Madrid? Madrid won solely because of Museo del Prado!

I feel like I made the right decision as Madrid was stellar! It all felt reminiscent of California and ultimately made me feel a little homesick. I also felt a lot of the the Spanish I used to know come back almost naturally as I explored! My stop here was fairly quick, but I know I’ll be back someday as I really want to complete the Camino Frances. Something to look forward to!