Sitting at the terraza of Plateria del Museo on Huertas, we were watching people walk by when suddenly a black german shepherd streaks by at full speed, galloping down the street, then, remaining at full tilt, turns left up Paseo del Prado. Shortly after, a police car comes down Huertas the wrong way with its lights on, gets up to Paseo del Prado, and stops. The cop that’s driving is clearly talking to his partner, with his arm hanging out the window of the car. It seemed they were debating turning the wrong way up Paseo del Prado (keep in mind, at this juncture it is a big, fast, 4 lane road with a split, so they’d be REALLY going the wrong way.) Sure enough, they turn on the siren and turn up the road the wrong way. Whatever that dog did, it was bad. Also, I have never before seen a full on police chase involving a random, if really fast, dog. It even appeared he had done this before, as he was not stopping, and going directions that were a problem for the police to follow, and actually outrunning them rather well.

We continued munching our food speculating as to what a dog could have done to get chased quite like that, and had ice cream for dessert. The rest of the day we lounged around and relxed. 4 star hotels are really nice places to stay in on a vacation!