I’m no art critic – I just love the pretty pictures 

On my first full day in Madrid I headed off to do the art triangle

The metro is easy peasy – very similar to Londons, found Atocha station no bother but where were the museums?  Friendly policeman said on the right…..

Walking, I see a big garden, the botanical gardens, people & lamposts with art flags on them, looks like a good place to start looking

Plan was Reina Sofia first as I love modern art, then Prado and finish in Thyssen-Bornemiza

Walking up the hill I discover I’m at the Prado but can’t find my way in!  On the left says the security guard.  Finds ticket office, it was cheap €14 maybe but no you can’t come in here, on the left says the clerk.  So left I walked & finally found my way in thinking this better be worth it

Totally blown away!  From the minute I finally got in I was surrounded by giant scale masterpieces.  I spent almost 5 hours wandering through endless rooms of huge pictures, Raphael & Titan to Rubens, Goya & Rembrandt walked around in awe

There’s a lot of Goya & some is pretty disturbing!  Temporary exhibitions of Ingres & La Tour were amazing I loved how it showed the build up of Ingres work, preliminary sketches & paintings

With a rumbling tummy & sore legs, but there’s more art lol, I finally checked out the cafe where free wifi gave me a map to Reina Sofia 

 No photography in Prado so here’s the plan

At information I asked directions to RS – left & left the girl said, the old guy rolled his eyes, obviously not his gallery of choice

I walked left & left, I tried to follow my map, at the roundabout I stopped to study phone, looked up & there it was

   Yeah like how did I miss that!

Four floors of pretty cool modern art & a garden!  On floor 2 access was blocked to section 206, no GUERNICA!!!!  Determined not to let it spoil my day, I turned round after 205 to work my way backwards from 210 and guess what, access to 206 was from the back door so I saw Picassos masterpiece – no photos there though

Picasso, Dali, Gris & a host of others to explore

Thoroughly enjoyed my Arty Thursday in Madrid but no way was I getting to 3 galleries in one day 
A lot of it was quite erotic!