Spanish Trains and The Madrid Museums

To get to Madrid we travelled on the train to take the opportunity to spend a couple of days in Madrid as it is a city we haven't seen before, The trains were fantastic, even Malaga stations resembles an airport terminal, complete with baggage scanners and security and the trains themselves are probably as advanced as anywhere in the world again just like a train, we had a steward and in flight movie, it was travelling at just over 320 kph, which is around 180 mph. it was flying but smooth also, not rattling at all, just amazing, the British train system has been starved of finance for years and it is nothing like this. I was very impressed and our hotel in Madrid was near the airport and very nice and clean and nice food in the restaurant. It was chosen for two reasons, it was close to the subway station and close to the airport as we got a free shuttle to the airport. getting the tube into madrid centre was easy and very cheap, the subway is designed to move lots of people about without a car in a busy city, and it was fantastic, all new and clean and easy to get about and find were your going, just what we needed. The Museums I visited were the Thyssen Museum, very impressive to say he was alive until a few years ago, The Prado Museum, very old ugly pictures of the Catholic guilt, Christ and the Madonna, too much of an overdose for me, it was OK, the naked fat ladies of Rubens were OK, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, this was the Modern Art Museum, it was a joke, this art is a confidence trick, just pure bullshit of the highest order, even Picasso was represented in many pictures and it was shit, that man was a joker, he must have laughed all the way to the bank, even his Guernica was just rubbish, I hate modern art, The impressionists started all this but they were good, there were many in the Thyssen gallery and some in the Prado and a few in the modern art, even Darli didn't do much for me, only his elephants with big legs was interesting. They were all feeding off each other to just make money, at the expense of the stupid rich folks with more money than sense, that museum can close and no-one would miss it

Malaga Railway Station, Very Impressive




Just like a duty free store in an airport




The Underground was clean and new but still smelled like the london underground




The Prado Museum was big but full of Catholic guilt pictures, 500 of the Christ on the crucifix and Madonna and Child