(along my walk to church; fountains alongside El Rio Manzanares; Calle de Segovia;
Catedral de la Almudena; at mass inside the cathedral)
So I'll have no problem going to church while I'm here in Madrid! The walk is too picturesque for getting into prayer-mode & to simply clear my head & truly see the beauty I'm surrounded with. I kinda had to do some werk to get up to the cathedral: there was the slightly long walk, the relatively steep hill, & then some tricky pathways that led me to little pretty gardens with random statues & couples making out on the grass... but we'll get to the issue of the P.D.A. here in Spain when I can finally get a photo of one or some examples. Anyways, the work was so worth it because the cathedral is beautiful & kinda felt like museum since there were huge, separate & numerous alters to different Catholic images along the walls. Walking through the cathedral to the area where the mass was held felt surreal- the pathways was lined by tall, marble & fake-looking pillars. I wasn't able to understand everything at mass since I wasn't used to it in Spanish, but mostly because the priest's voice kept echoing in the huge church, but it was an experience nonetheless; & to think: I get to do this every Sunday till Dec! *sigh. Too happy :D
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