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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just got back from this trip with my ten and we did Madrid and San Sebastián.  I also thought about Denia instead of San Sebastián but decided that would be better with a car and I didn’t want to deal with a car.  But from Denia there is more hiking and I think you can do snorkeling and such.

In Madrid we did this:
Day 1 arrive, lunch, afternoon at Prado, rest, tapas dinner.
Day 2 fast train to  Toledo walked around old quarter went to cheese museum, mesquita, Alcazar and cathedral.  Lunch and train home.  Rest.  Tapas dinner.
Day 3.  Rastro market.  Palace.  Cathedral.  Shopping at teeny bopper type clothes stores.  Lunch’.  Ice cream.  Plaza mayor and Puerto del sol.   Back to hotel to rest.  Tapas dinner out.
Day 4: fast train to Segovia.  Toured the alcazar (disney like castle).  Saw the aqueduct.  Are lunch at plaza mayor.  Toured the cathedral (great place for photos in the courtyard).  Fast train back.  Resting.   Tapas dinner.

There was a heat wave when we were there so we really moderated our plans.  I had planned to go to retoro park and we just couldn’t bear the idea of walking outside that much.  I had also planned to go to Reina Sofia but it was harder to motivate.  We did more leisurely meals with cool beverages.

I think Granada and Sevilla are both awesome.  But my teen really wanted to see the big city, royal palace etc.   also the idea of going further south in the summer was unappetizing.  If we went for spring break or Thanksgiving I would want to do Sevilla and Granada.  Another city that looked very cool that I considered was Burgos.  There are medieval walls and cathedral plus it’s close to some of the famous early human cave paintings and there is a museum of early man.  I couldn’t sell my teen on Burgos, which she’d never heard of, but it looked very cool to me.  There’s probably other cities like that that would be fun for a couple of days.  [/quote]

I am impressed at your stamina in the historic heatwave! Don't feel bad about the Retiro; a lot of parks in Madrid get shut down/closed during high heat days so it would have been awful to have gotten all the way to the gates only to discover it was closed and/or all the fun stuff was roped off.[/quote]

I consumed a lot of iced sangria, lemon fanta and water!  My daughter’s favorite phrase was “Agra sin gas por favor”.  But it’s amazing how cool the old cathedrals and castles stay.  And the old stone narrow streets are so much cooler than our wild asphalt roads. [/quote]

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