It’s known since the day people started to use batteries: remember to either charge it, or take backup with you. I was shooting some important statue, and after the second shot it said ‘Change battery pack’. Oh, well, it’s lunch time anyway, and I headed back to the hotel just to charge my battery. Odd, but walking around without making pictures isn’t fun anymore.

I had some doubts yesterday about what to do in the next morning. At least at work I know what to expect, but on vacation I fear to get bored the next days. Maybe I should revise the way I actually do vacation. Just like yesterday I started out early. The sun has been a problem for making pictures so I try to go when the sunlight is not so intense yet.

I’m sitting here slightly getting drunk, but nobody minds and me neither. I’m dining here next to Plaza Mayor in Madrid (Spain btw), like a good tourist I am. I know there are more kinky places, but with 30 degrees outside one stops bothering looking.. Yes, I did actually check a few places. I’m drinking here a Cerveza, it might have been the 3rd one already. Dining at an Argentinian place, also 3rd time, next to Plaza major, going Calle del Toledo.

(Pictures with comments on Flickr)There seems to be some competition between the two, but for me the Plaza Mayor wins over Plaza de la Puerto del Sol. First, it’s actually a square; and second it’s totally traffic free! (Traffic goes under it.)At first it did remember me of the Piazza di Marco, but the only thing Plaza Mayor has in common with it, is that it is actually a square or, for the mathematicians under us: a rectangle.

(Pictures with comments, completing my blog here on Flickr)This morning I wondered the streets around Gran Via and found them surprisingly vivid! People roaming the entrances of shops still to open, tourist getting maps, churches.. getting no attention, I think? First thing I wanted to do is buy a travel guide. Lucky I found the Eyewitness Travel guide from Dorling Kindersley; old, but I figured the short historical facts of buildings and places must be still kinda accurate.