{"id":9216,"date":"2026-06-19T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:13:53","slug":"spain-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/spain-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain, day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We embarked on a mega-walk today through many lovely Madrid neighborhoods. We stopped for amazing chocolate dipped churros, lots of people watching, and pauses in the shade. (Have I mentioned the blazing summer heat?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, we made our way to the Royal Palace where we had 4:30 tickets. After running into one of my students in the plaza, we wended our way through the security line only to learn that our tickets were for tomorrow. <\/em>They wouldn\u2019t budge. Fortunately, we are on vacation, so who cares? We\u2019ll try again tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a great adventure, but after more than 20,000 steps, we were worn out by the time we got home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We embarked on a mega-walk today through many lovely Madrid neighborhoods. We stopped for amazing chocolate dipped churros, lots of people watching, and pauses in the shade. (Have I mentioned the blazing summer heat?) Eventually, we made our way to the Royal Palace where we had 4:30 tickets. After running into one of my students … Continue reading Spain, day 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2510-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1919&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9219,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions\/9219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}