El Rastro Madrid

Plaza de Cascorro, Madrid , Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands - Phone: 34-91-5404010

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    Madrid - "I don't speak whatever you are speaking"

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    NEVER stay in Hostel Sol. Disgusting. Incredibly far from everything. Mad. Sketch.

    Go on the Free Tour ASAP - basically afterwards you'll have a feel for the city and know what things you most want to see or go back to.

    Fabulous Tapas: Kaixo

    Favorite Museum: Reina Sofia (free 7pm-9pm M, W, Th, F, 2:30pm-9pm on Sat, and …

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    El Rastro

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    This was our very first trip in Spain. Today we went with several people to the Rastro. That is a huge open-air market in the heart of Madrid. It was packed with people. We had to be constantly aware of pickpockets. We did not get victimized, but we constantly had to be on our guard.

    Leslie bought a small coin purse for 2 Euros and a small …

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    Downtown Madrid

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    Today is Good Friday. It is a holiday in Spain, so virtually everything is closed. We decided to take the Madrid Vision bus tour. These are double-decker buses. The top deck is open air. There are two routes; one is old Madrid and the other is modern Madrid. Each tour takes about 75 minutes. While riding the bus you can also listen to the audio of …

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    I need to learn Spanish...

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    ... , a 2nd hand text on the conflict of laws and a pack of chewing gum all go to the weero. Madrid also has a silly silly market. El Rastro, a sunday-morning only event, is apparently the biggest in Europe. Stretching for blocks and blocks and blocks, ...

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    El Rastro, El Retiro and the Zoo.

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    ... no fancy trips or excursions the last couple of months, but at least I finally managed to visit the somewhat famous El Rastro Sunday morning flea market..., and the Zoo in the huge Casa de Campo park, close to where I used to live before I moved into ...

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    mecurial madrid

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    ... also chronicle our second day here. Sundays sees the area surrounding the Puerto de Toledo explode into a flea market of epic proportions; El Rastro. Lots of permanent stalls as well as street-side garage sale stuff as well. Very vibrant and fun as well ...

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    Qualified Teachers ??!

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    ... . It´s really nice to wander around and sit and relax, even if we were meant to be studying! One weekend we wandered around El Rastro - the Sunday market which sells just about everything imaginable. The streets are packed and you can barely move. It´s ...

  • 5

    updates written in May

    ... how we do it here in Madrid. Ria came to visit from Boston for her spring break where I took her to El Rastro, a flea market that happens every Sunday morning/afternoon for some goods and later roamed around the Buen Retiro Park, ...

  • 6

    ¿Que pasta?

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    ... or what my plan was. Luckily the hostal said I could keep my stuff there for the day so I headed to El Rastro, Spain's largest flea market and wandered around, bartering here and there. My Spanish is pathetic, but it's coming back to me slowly but ...

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    El Rastro and the Sights of Madrid

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    ... and then headed downstairs for free breakfast - croissant, orange juice and hot chocolate. After that we headed out to see the El Rastro open air markets. Essentially all the streets in this area of town are closed to traffic and stall holders set up ...

  • 8

    Real Cold Madrid

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    ... hit up the Prado and today, the Reina Sofia. Tomorrow is our last day, so we're going to head to the big market El Rastro and el Parque de Retiro....and hit up every touristy store in search of David Beckham goods. Monday we're off to San Sebastian ...

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    More Madrid tourism

    ... , until now, I have had about 10 cumulative hours of sleep since leaving the US. We decided to go to El Rastro, the big, famous outdoor market in Madrid, this morning, so we woke up kind of early in order to beat the crowd and heat. I finally asked Maru ...

  • 10

    Shower Victory and El Rastro

    ... time, being slightly smarter, I turned it off and managed to balance it precariously. Victory! Today, Erin, Cora and I went to the flea market in Madrid. It's a lot like a craft fair, if your craft fairs include mostly imports from countries poorer ...