Comunidad de Madrid Travel Blogs - Page 4

For my spring break this year I visited Madrid. Since I was in Rome for a semester and my girlfriend was studying in Madrid, I decided to take a close look at that Spanish capital and it turned out it was the right decision. I also wanted to see if it compares at all to the second most beautiful ci…

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I woke up at 7:30am and I had a generous breakfast as today I would need lots of energy. I also drank as much as posible as I know the temperature was going to be high. Then I starting puting some clothes on. Light clothes as the heat will be really strong. Before leaving, I checked my photo equipm…

El sábado era el día fuerte de la visita, ya que al disponer de todo el día se puede hacer una buena planificación. Despues de desayunar en el hotel, salimos temprano, primero paramos a sacarnos unas fotos en la famosa Plaza de España. El dia, como era temprano estaba un poco frio todavia, per…

Firstly we meet up in the center near the Bear in the Sol Station. We went to find a place to eat, it was hard to decided (mc donalds, VIPS, KFC, Burger king,..).Then we went from Gran Via to La puerta de Alcalá to walk at the Retiro Park, but hapens something......we finally end the walk in boats…

This was a four-days-long-metro-travel-trip ;) = [one big metro ride!]I planned the visit in Madrid a long time ago. Two years ago i was in Andalucia (southern Spain) and i almost managed to get to Madrid ... ALMOST :/ So now i was more than happy! This was my dream! To see, to know, to be surround…

The Royal Palace of Madrid was our next stop after visiting the Valley of the Fallen.This Royal Palace like many European palaces were adorned with gold, marble, countless of artworks and portraits. One thing that stood out in this royal palace was its vast collection of chandeliers! They were fant…

We spent more than 3 days exploring Madrid, it's a real pleasure strolling around and losing yourself in the small streets of the city.Things you must do in Madrid: spend one afternoon in the parque de retiro just sleeping or rowing a small boat you can rent in the park eat a "bocadillo de jamon…

There are places that you leave and there are places that never leave you. It was so fantastic to be back in my favorite country with my favorite person.

Finally I Buy a bottle of Mel's Goose (GREY GOOSE) and bring it to the Madrid Meetup....and back to BCN ;))))

3rd July 08 We eventually got into Madrid at 00.30am. Pretty annoying really, but as soon as we got our luggage we decided to head over to Lauro and Alex who had been waiting for us at the airport for years!   We flew into terminal 4, and the guys were waiting at terminal 1, so we took the …

Being in Madrid was a bit of a suprise for me but it works out well.  I had believed for the past week or so that my flight to Dublin was in the morning, but it's not, it is actually at night so I have all day here to get things done.  Mostly shopping.  I hate shopping, especially gi…

So I have been in Spain for more than a week now, but it still hasn't hit me that I am here. Maybe it is because I haven't been speaking Spanish. I should change that, soon! So I arrived in Madrid on the 22nd. The hostel I stayed at (Mad Hostel) was okay. The location wasn't bad, but then ag…

Arrived at midnight at my host´s place in Madrid, was only sure I was coming to Madrid about 12o´clock, thursday 21st will continue on to Lisboa. Road tripping with Paul from Austria, he´s filming a documentory about couch surfing, how cool.

MADRID So there I am, last night of my 10 day trip to France and Spain with my friends from High School Spanish club.  I was the ripe old age of 18 and bummed that most of the other kids in the group wanted to simply spend the last night in the hotel playing cards.  Our guide (who was in…