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...

The other day, we went to some trenches from the Spanish civil war. When we got there we had to follow a short path to the firing positions. Then we entered an under ground tunnel. There was also a paper that said "do not enter, risk of collapse" but we felt safe and went in. After we got in, it was dark yet cool. At the the start it was steep but then it leveled and got a little bit narrow, the tunnel went about 50 yards and it exited to another trench. we liked it so much that we did it again.