Spain 2022
Traveling to see my friend in Madrid, the words of Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra echoed in my head, "There is a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame that renders mere existence enjoyment". Upon reading these words in my sun-dappled backyard, gilded by the setting sun with the gentlest breeze livening a green scent to the air, I once saw myself in the Moorish castles of southern Spain. My precious imagination and yearning to visit the land of Grenada will be satisfied for now by a trip to the country's esteemed capital, Madrid. And I shall aspire to experience it in the beautiful way which makes simply existing enjoyable. The bulwark of Republican resistance against Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Madrid is now a cosmopolitan industrial city known for its art and tapas. Me at the Royal Pa
