The Epicentre of Goodness

Today was a bit stormy to start so we headed right to the Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sophia, which is a modern art museum but it was retro modern art, most of it coming from early to mid 20th century which was not quite what we were used to but was still very interesting. The room that created the most discussion was the room described as "The lowest common multiple of experience". We never ended up finding it but then wondered if we in fact did find it and it was really "the lowest common multiple of experience."

At dinner we had some in-depth conversation on what really would be the lowest common multiple of experience... (yes, the wine was great with dinner) we decided it would be one of two things: a physical white room with just you in it, or existing as your true self. Word is still out on what would be the "The lowest common multiple of experience"... suggestions?

One of the very cool things about this "older" modern art is that I got to see a lot of Picasso's work and a progression of Salvador Dalí's work. Man, can Dalí do detail... it was scary impressive!

Some of my favs pieces included:






After the museum we did a little shoe shopping, but have been unsuccessful so far... I hold out hope. We have seen some good shoes but nothing awesome enough to buy yet.

We then hopped on the subway to pick up tickets at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. We are going to be joining 80,000 fans cheering for Real Madrid... I have no idea how we are going to find out seats! talk about needle in a haystack! I figure there has to be some learned efficiencies! I can't wait to cheer and really embrace the Spanish Fútbol.

After picking up the tickets we dropped them off in the Hotel safe and headed out to this renowned chocolate shop called - Cacao Sampaka. We went a bit crazy... really it's research for our Christmas chocolates right?! We started with some unusual flavours:

• Curry: Very good but really don't see it having wide appeal
• Parmesan Cheese: Good but tastes odd... the salt of the cheese and chocolate was a nice match
• Sesame seed: Very good, the crunch of the sesame seeds were very nice but not much of a sesame taste
• Peppermint: Very good, very standard through, we wanted to make sure we had one chocolate that would not be totally ick!
  

However we couldn't resist going back for more... We went back for:

• Hot and Spicy: Very good but watch out for the kick-back finish. Very curious!
  
• Peanut: Good, more creamy than peanut... sad because we were expecting P/B cups level
• Coconut: Good, more pina colada... but decent
• Cafe: Very good, but classic
• Caramel: Good, but not super-caramel-ly
• Stolen: OMG! AMAZING! SO AMAZING it was scary! Like apple strudel in a tiny chocolate. We need to figure out how to recreate! More research required!

Great day ended with a dinner at Chic where the appetizers blew us away, I had the porcini croquettes which were awesome and Anna had the grilled veggies. Very very tasty. The mains were decent but could have totally been awesome-er.

Last full day in Madrid tomorrow... Sad :(