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We returned to Madrid after Granada, and had dinner at a nice place. We decided to go out but couldn't find a good place. We were so tired that we just went home and slept. Anticlimactic? Maybe. Relaxing? Yes. I was ready to leave the lifestyle of city-hopping to go to somewhere stable for a while. My batteries are drained.

We journeyed back to Madrid where we saw the Reina Sophia Art Centre Musem, took a trip to Segovia, and wandered around the city.

Salimos el día 16 de Agosto desde la Terminal 1 del aeropuerto de Madrid a las 9h. Nosotros somos de Bilbao por lo que la noche anterior la pasamos en un hotel cercano al aeropuerto. El coche lo dejamos en el parking vip del aeropuerto (una persona bien identifica nos estaba esperando en la puerta de la terminal para recoger nuestro coche).   Como he dicho antes, salimos a las 9h con Delta vía Nueva York.   El vuelo fue muy tranquilo y la compañía Delta me gustó mucho, tan...

Flamengo dancing and Bullfighting ... defintiely on my "top 10 geatest experiences"!

Living one year on Madrid

My trip had a double purpose, as it seems all trips should in order to be economically affordable, as well as sensible. I worked during the week and traveled on the weekends. The following stories are my tales. The places are true, but every once in awhile I insert some fables to see if you're paying attention. Enjoy.

The only reason we'd go to Madrid was that it wasn't that expansive. We've already planned our holiday to Greece so our budget was tight. I bought a guide to Madrid, that's good prep work but it also gained my interest for Madrid! We were there for four days, but I thinks that's enough to see all the highlights. At day one we took it slow and just went for a walk. All of the sudden we've realised that we were walking through Plaza Mayor. A very crowded plaza. A lot of steet artist where doing...

Weekend trip to Madrid

Summary of my travels since starting to travel for work in 2004. Three continents and three jobs later, this blog is an ongoing work in process. All locations are entered through present, will be adding descriptions and pictures as I have the opportunity. Please let me know if you see an entry without info you would like me to upload pictures for and I can take care of adding that location's items sooner.

Girona, Barcelona and Christmas in Toledo :)

Brief sojourn in Paris, followed by a trip around southern Spain. Finished off with a visit to family in Norfolk and Guernsey.

This time was just a few hours on Madrid, and i was very tired because i spent all the day travelling, by plane, car and train, gezzz,  the good thing is that i got the laptop and in every moment i trydo conect to some wifi avaliable, and thats it, im connected to the world, and that's one of the thing's i like most, be connect' ed everywhere, talking about technology, with my new iPOD i can now enjoy lot's of this from iTUNES, like PodCasts. music and more, ca't say nothing more, i don'...

We decided not to stay in Madrid as our research indicated that it may not interest us as much as other places. But we did still have one night, so took in as much of the city as possible. Our first impression was fairly "grimey" as the street that our hostel was on, was lined with prostitutes!!! And Im talking at 4 in the afternoon!! We walked around the streets (the other streets), and did a little bit of window shopping...our only purchase was an impulse cleansing face mask!!! Af...

roteiro inicial

Hi, first entry....Like it says in my profile, i've decided to take my gap year around Europe - to me there's just as much culture to be found here as in the popular back packer places like thailand and south america - more even!  The other reason I've decided to do my gap year this way is because i didn't want to be on a plane for hours on end (nor paying high airfares!) - In Europe I can get everywhere by train and what is more is that it's flexible this way.  I have one of the E...