Our only other must do in the quick visit to Madrid was to see the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas. Bullfights are only on Sundays, which we knew, we just were going to go take pictures and see the outside of the ring. Much to our delight, they have guided tours! It is an awesome building, which has been used weekly since 1931. We went into the stands, got out in the sand, went to the terrace and into the museum.
We picked up our rental car... the dude behind the desk questioned our choice of automatic transmission and said he could give us a BMW if we took an automatic. Knowing we would crash in less than 5 minutes we hung our heads shamefully and said we needed the automatic. We have a cute Passat with a ton of scratches on it and as we did the walk around on it, I was diligently noting the dings when the guy just smiled at me, wrote that the car has a lot of scratches, stamped the paper and laughed... "Welcome to Spain! This is how we Spanish do things! Enjoy!"
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