Bucket List #9: Visit El Escorial 

The Escorial is a monastery an hour outside of Madrid known for its beauty and size. I’m not really sure I can cross it off the list though because… it is closed on Mondays… along with everything else sight-seeing worthy in the cute town of San Lorenzo. Including the tourist office. Caitlin, Katie and I therefore decided to eat interesting things (leche frita por ejemplo) and go in any open door of anything that looked interesting. It wasn’t a bad day. Even though I did get stung by a wasp at breakfast. I’m scratching this one off my Spain bucket list with an A for effort but adding it to my life bucket list.