Travelogue

[hudebnik]

Last night when I visited the web site for the Las Huelgas Monastery, which houses the Museo de Telas Medievales among other things, there were tickets available for today at 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, etc. I wasn't sure when we'd get out of the room or how we'd be getting there (one guidebook says you can get there by any of three different bus lines, but Google Maps doesn't offer any mass-transit directions at all, telling me it's faster to walk), so I decided to buy the tickets once I had more answers to those questions. (You can see where this is going....) This morning when I checked the website, there were no tickets available for any time today. I confirmed by e-mail that no, there really were no tickets available for today, and we crossed Las Huelgas off the list. Which made the day simpler: we didn't need to figure out transportation, and simply visited the Burgos Cathedral and the early-Gothic Iglesia de San Nicolas de Bari next door. Much of the Cathedral is 16th- and 17th-century, but there's some 15th-century art, and the claustro bajo at the end of the tour concentrates more on the pre-14c history of the building.


Stopped at a restaurant for churros y chocolate, waited about half an hour to order, and were told they didn't sell churros y chocolate until 4 PM; at this time they only do the menu del día. So we walked out, found a pan-Asian restaurant that looked faster, and had Chinese food, then got in the car and drove to Madrid (right past Lerma, but I don't know that there's anything to see there so we didn't). Checked into an airport hotel. Returned rental car. Ordered room service for dinner. Repacked suitcases. Up early tomorrow morning to catch a plane to JFK.