The Madrid Files

Our Visit to El Escorial By Elias This weekend we went to visit El Escorial. We slept in a hotel. First we visited the palace built by King Philip II in the 1500s. It was huge! It had a library, and we went into a room that had paintings of all the kings of Spain. It also had a huge church and a sculpture of the palace. Me and Kiko played in the garden that was like a maze. We ran a lot.  After, we went to a hotel. And then we went to a village made out of straw and plywood. My papá told me that this was a belén, which is what they call a Nativity scene here in Spain. I had fun hiding in the village. The hotel was sweet! There was a tv in each room. There was also a sauna and outside there was also a pool, but it was closed for the winter. At breakfast I ate first a breakfast of chocolate (brownie, cookie, croissant, and a donut - each one was pretty small), AND THEN I had a healthy breakfast of fruits. On our second day we went on a hike. And on o...