Pictures

I've had these for a couple days now but haven't been able to post them cause whatever Internet connection I've been able to find has been slow and unreliable, so it's been hard to get them uploaded. I promise these aren't the most interesting or beautiful pictures Madrid has to offer, but they were near where I was, so I took them. (Click them to make them bigger)

First, my room:



This is the apartment building:



Here's the massive construction project that's going on on the other side of the street from the apartment:



This is the Puerta de Toledo, about 5 blocks from me, which marks the road leading to Toledo, where we'll be going tomorrow:



These are pictures of the Puerta del Sol, which is considered the social and cultural center of Madrid:



This is the Plaza Mayor, one of the main meeting places and another vibrant social center.. it's basically a huge plaza in the middle of downtown surrounded by walls and spires like this:



Close-up of part of the plaza, I forget the story behind these paintings:



The Prado:



A random church that's in the middle of downtown, surrounded by stores and office buildings and such. There are a lot of these scattered throughout the city.



That's all I have at the moment -- but I should be taking more pictures of better stuff today.