lesslejd,

I think if you have 10 days you could do that breakdown and go to Sevilla too. Do you have your US flights already booked? You could fly into madrid, after 4 days take AVE to Sevilla and then fly to Barcelona and fly from Barcelona back to the US. Or do it viceversa.

lesleejd,

Just a thought... I don't know what time of the year you are planning for this but if it is during the summer, I would skip Sevilla . Too hot.

amyb - hi, again,thanks for the info - we arrive at about 6pm on the sat, so i'm thinking about jumping a a cab and getting straight down to the Prado - or possibly not!!!
i think that early on tuesday before we go home might be a better bet!

Josele - thanks for the info about the Tintoretto - i looked at the prado web-site and found there's no on-line booking, so i suppose it'll be through the hotel when we get there.

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So it turns out I had read your TR before my spain trip earlier this year. I read as many Spain TRs as I could find on Fodors and yours was one of them. I just didn't put 2 and 2 together (your screenname and your other posts). Thanks again.

BTW, now that I'm re-reading this after my trip, I can see that even though my trip was similar to yours (12 days, Barcelona, Granada, Seville, Cordoba, Madrid, Toledo, Segovia), I had rather different takes on places/sights than you. But of course, we're all entitled to our own opinion.

Hola

"I bought most of my tickets at El Corte Ingles travel agency rather than deal with the lines at either Seville or Atocha."

Thankx for your report especially this one.

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