Place and Time

I just got off the phone from Robyn Carpenter, who went on this trip and with me in 1992 (a future chronicle), and she noticed that no one did a post on Madrid. This is probably because we were jet lagged the first day, and then went to Segovia and Toledo on the next days. Here is one of Bob and myself in the Plaza Oriente, with the Royal Palace in the background. Gracias Robyn.

Here is one of Bob and me in from of the Madrid Bullring.

Here is a mine of Don Quixote and a passerby.

Here is an amazing statue of Felipe IV in the Plaza de Oriente. See below for the story about how the statue is very unique. Now, the only statue in the square that looks properly proportionate is King Felipe IV, who sits on his rearing horse smack in the middle of the Square, as his statue had always been designed to be placed on the ground from the very beginning. Interestingly, the design of the statue had help from no less illustrious a source than Galileo Galilei. The original sculptor was afraid the horse would crumple under its own weight, but with advise from the eminent astronomer, solved the problem by making the front of the horse hollow and the back solid.

Here is "Carolalinea", a very famous Spanish Lagunan Princesa. What a beauty!!