On Sunday, we took the bullet train back from Seville to Madrid. The travel was very pleasant. We sat next to a family from northern Spain - father, mother, infant, and nanny. Lynne exercized her Spanish for most of the trip, chatting with the family.
When we arrived in Madrid, we took the subway to our hotel, the Husa Princesa. It is west of the Puerta del Sol, the center of the city. From the Husa Princesa it was a convenient walk or subway ride to our destinations each day.
In the Plaza del Sol we found an Internet Cafe, where we logged on to HotMail and picked up a number of messages from our daughter Lucy. She was also in Europe, with her cousins Will and Sarah and their Uncle Gordon. We had not seen her for about two weeks. We emailed her back and over the next three days exchanged messages several times. We found several Internet Cafes in Madrid, all of them inexpensive.
