The second day in Madrid quite a few events happened. First we saw first hand the infamous Spanish protests that our daughter would constantly tell us about. This time it was about their health care. Unfortunately here in Spain, since the economy is not improving the government is starting to privatize their healthcare and the Spanish citizens are being required to pay for some benefits that have always been free. Living in Canada for 11 years, I understand why they would be protesting for this right. Healthcare is important, actually its a human right and when the state takes it away its taking away a vital and important right.
Since this isn’t a political blog, and I don’t intend on making it political either, after we saw the protest in Puerta de Sol, which is the city center of Madrid, we went and had some doner kebob, which is a Turkish dish. Apparently in Madrid, having Turkish food is equivalent to the late nights taco and burrito runs my daughter and her friends make when they get hungry in California. Nevertheless, the food was delicious and we enjoyed it a lot.
Later on that night we went back to the hotel and started getting ready for the week ahead of us in the different parts of Spain. We went back to my daughter’s apartment and left our extra luggage, which we figured out later that night that we should’ve taken a small carry on with us.
See you in Barcelona!
Ellie and Bahram Go to Spain 