Plaza Mayor Madrid

We traveled from Cordoba to Madrid on Tuesday on the high speed train. We checked into the Hostal Oporto, which is located just behind the Congress of Deputies, so security is always present and visible. The Thyssen Museum is just around the corner, and the Prado is just on the other side of Neptune Plaza, so we are all set for a few days of …

What a weekend in Madrid!!! Here is a summary: walking, eating tapas, dancing, not sleeping and taking pictures....hahaha

One of my first travels from Zaragoza and it was definitely a lot of fun, and left me craving more! I went with 3 other friends. Kristen, Katharina (a friend from my Spanish class) and Alina (a friend from Kristens …

As I have mentioned already, we were flying from London to Lima through Madrid, where we had around 10 hours break, so we decided to visit the city. We landed to Madrid Barajas airport at around noon and left our luggage at the airport, took the metro to the centre and easily walk in the city enjoying the fresh air, sunny day and nice architecture …

March 2nd:
1) man attempted to carry beer through security...we felt slightly more intelligent
2) watched three movies, two tv shows and ate two meals.... 11 hour airplane ride=success
3) Colleen threw her carry-on in above-compartment storage and managed to let her steal water bottle hit a man seated directly below in first class... …

11 hours of sleep later and encounter with a French gentleman who was very keen to give suggestions of where to go (turns out Vivian can be a boy's name), I woke up at a slightly indecently early time (for holidays anyway) of 7:30. Luckily, it was to the pleasant surprise of free churros for breakfast. Delicious. After waiting for Thu to get up and …

Madrid is the capital city of Spain and I would say it is a European New York City, they look very similar. Our self proclaimed 'epic adventure' began at the crack of dawn with no sleep, which segued into our 'world famous hostel.' We walked into a construction zone, literally. The hostel is being renovated and it was a mess! We also spent a few …

Our final stop was Madrid. So we bookended the trip with the two big cities, Barcelona and Madrid.

Madrid is nice. We walked around a couple of the main plazas often, since our hostal was very close to both of them. And we only had to take one metro line 3 or 4 stops to get most of wherever we wanted to go, so it was easier to get around …

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Ce lundi, j'ai eu la chance de visiter Madrid à pied, avec un tour gratuit proposé par notre auberge de jeunesse. Bien que Madrid ne soit pas une ville reconnue pour ses attraits touristiques, il y a tout de même quelques points intéressants à voir.


Le tour débuta à la Plaza de la Puerta del Sol, …

We arrived in Madrid by 6pm and had a smooth transition to the hostel. It is a fairly new place to open so was still pretty cheap and was a great location - right on the Plaza Mayor. The first couple of days we dipped into the Spanish culture. We went to a flamenco show on our first night which was brilliant. The dancers and singers were so …

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Today was the first real day spent in Madrid. After having the LONGEST day of my life traveling yesterday, fighting the jet lag once we landed, and then getting a good night's sleep, I was finally able to enjoy all that this beautiful city has to offer.

First off, my hotel's breakfast was delicious! I'm not a …

... at our hostel on Madrid to find it in the heart of the city.  Only steps from the famous Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor.  We couldn´t have picked a better spot.  Similarly to Portugal, the cost of things is relatively low as well.  ...

... was the Cathedral (just breath taking, with a very Arabic gold-leaf ceiling pattern that illuminated the place). We ate lunch in Plaza Mayor, walked around the city, I bought a new dictionary with the excuse that they are better in Spain, but honestly I ...

... head out for beer and tapas or to wander in the cooling night.  Our walkabout led us to Plaza Mayor, a large and beautiful plaza in central Madrid.  The plaza's perimeter is lined by restaurants and bars.  There was even a bar dedicated ...

... , the wood, the statues, the buildings...everything breathed history. After Sofi arrived, we finished our beers and continued walking past Plaza Mayor. Only one block away we stumbled upon another square, this one smaller in size but equally grand. ...

... taken. I did try to explain that I have many a mass at the Oktoberfest, but they didn't understand my German. Next up was Plaza Mayor. This was how I thought Puerta Del Sol would be. A huge square which could fit 100000 people, or so the LP states, and ...

... morning and find it as well as the statue of the bear and madrono tree - Madrid's symbol) - continue walking down Mayor to the Plaza Mayor, Madrid's iconic square - do the square, looking for the higwaymen's arch and the restaurant named for the most ...

... seguramente ahí pasó algo importante en términos de la historia de España que nos queda pendiente leer. Seguimos nuestro camino hasta Plaza Mayor, obviamente ya Ami tenía los pantalones hechos sopa, y las Rift eran una laguna. (Ni hablar de que se ...

... out the main sites (Gran Via, Plaza de Espana, Palacio Real, A few churches, City Hall, Puerta del Sol, etc.) and when we stopped at Plaza Mayor, there was a sound check going on for a concert going on later in the evening. So we made a mental note and ...

... on fans, castanets and postcards. We wandered around the shops some more until we decided it was lunchtime and headed back to the bar by Plaza Mayor where we had stopped for coffee earlier. Once there we enjoyed a lunch of Bocadillas, Belle getting hers ...

... I arrived yesterday, I feel I´ve gotten a second wind for traveling. I was feeling sort of tired of it yesterday, but now I´m looking forward to the rest of it. It´s stopped raining now, so I´m going to head on to the Palacio Real and Plaza ...