A hike in the mountains

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Beautiful: My husband and I spent yesterday hiking in Peñalara Park in the peaks of the Guadarrama Mountains near Madrid.

You can get there in a two-hour ride by commuter train, changing trains in the mountain town of Cercedilla to a narrow-guage line that snakes up the sides of the mountains to the park. More than 150,000 people visit each year — even a few foreign tourists who discover that Madrid exists beyond the Prado Museum and tapas bars.

A few more photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150977508858611.428818.537088610&type=1

The park’s website, in Spanish:
http://www.parquenaturalpenalara.org/

— Sue Burke