After the convention in Lisbon Julie and I attended, we booked a tour of Madrid and Segovia with our 30 new best friends from the convention. I had thought Lisbon was beautiful, full of history and ancient buildings. Madrid topped all of it.
When we got to Madrid this time (unlike the excruciating layover we had had the week before), we went straight to our hotel. And boy — what a hotel. It was in central Madrid and had been a mansion at one point. It had been renovated into a luxury hotel. We couldn’t believe our eyes.