Parental Visit Review: Chueca Portion

So. Getting back to the fun filled parental visit of the week of January 24th. We had lunch at Café Oliver on that Thursday, which was good as ever. You can see in the photo that J is having orange juice, because she was coming down with that terrible cold we mentioned in our blog of January 26th. She would later go to bed and not get up again until the next afternoon. Our intrepid suegro G found soups and juices for her and nursed her back to life. So they came over for dinner on Friday night.

During J's illness, G made friends with the local pharmacists and barmen and women. On their last morning in Madrid, as we walked to the corner cafetería for a final café con leche, G said hello to several of them when they shouted their good mornings.

This is the fine looking couple that J and G had to look at through that lunch at Oliver.

So J and G went back to the Hostal Armesto to rest and recuperate, and S and A went for a walk through Chueca. We were impressed by the floating discs in the Plaza de Chueca. We saw a novenary of snowflakes fall. Ten kilometers outside of Madrid, it was snowing hard.


Discs.

A playground. Those are just such nice colors.


Good graffiti, too. That there is what we call a trompe l'oeil.



An all too close look at the sabbati-beard. We still believe in the redemptive power of the well-groomed moustache, but we are now coming to embrace the power and charm of the dense beard.