Spring Break - Day 4

Monday, last day in Madrid, still gorgeous. We went to the palace in the morning. It was really beautiful, there was an entire room covered in porcelain. Probably the grandest palace I've seen. After that we went back to the hostel for a tapas tour. Tapas are small dishes you usually have for lunch. Apparently, back in the day the drinking water in Spain was contaminated so they drank wine instead. They ate when they drank and they put the plate on top of their glasses like a lid. The word for lid in Spanish is tapa, hence, tapas. Our guide was very nice and Swedish. She'd only been in Madrid for 2 months taking a year off between high school and college, which is typical in Europe it seems. 18 year olds in Europe definitely have more freedom than 18 year olds in America. I don't think travelling all over America would be half as easy as all the travelling I've done here. After the tapas tour Becky and I were both pretty tired, we had a drink with each tapa...there were 4 tapas. We had some churros and chocolate which were quite tasty and just shopped around the Plaza Mayor area for most of the rest of the day.