Reportage on the goings on of Craighan
Well, the exchange rate has not improved any since my last tallying of the expenses, and this month we felt the effects much more than the first month because we no longer had the benefit of a month’s lodging booked back in October. Here are the totals.
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Boy howdy do I miss drip coffee.
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The monastery at El Escorial was built on the orders of Phillip II (he’s the guy who married Mary Tudor, aka “Bloody Mary”) and was completed in 1584. We didn’t have time to get out to see it on our first trip to Madrid, so it was pretty high on our list of day trips for this go-round.
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Whilst choosing between the €4 bottle and the €3 bottle at our local supermercado, I noticed that on the back label of a Crianza I was interrogating it mentioned the use of tempranillo grapes. What the what? After a mad dash to Google and few glasses of this Crianza-tempranillo later, we learned the following.
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Madrid’s cathedral is pretty new as those things go. Consecrated in 1993 by John Paul II, construction on Santa María la Real de La Almudena began in 1883, with Madrid becoming an bishopric in 1884 (later an archbishopric in 1964).
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