Casa de Madrid
Calle Arrieta 2, 2a Madrid, Madrid, 28013, Spain and Canary Islands
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Spring Break!! Stop Two: Madrid
... off by explaining that over 50% of Madrid's population isn't natives. This made the language barrier a little more bearable!
After our tour we checked into our hostel and embraced the Spanish culture with a nice long siesta. When we woke up, we went to an authentic flamenco dancing performance. It was really neat. We took it easy that night in Madrid even though we heard there is a pretty ...
Slow Paced tourism in Madrid
... the art in that place really left me somewhat... puzzled. Yayoi Kusama had work there, and we managed to get it on the last day. I had seen a documentary on her work and you don't need to know about art to appreciate it. She makes massive exhibitions and worlds within exhibitions and she did that with this one too, very cool.
Madrid for us so far, an for the rest, is a much more slow paced style of tourism. We have been relaxing ...
Madrid: Pick-pocketers, Protesters and Performers
This trip to Madrid, in my opinion, started out all bad. First we made our way over to Gabrielle Plaza in order to catch the charter bus with the rest of the T&E students. When we got there some random lady told every student that traveled to Spain without a sponsor or instructor (which totaled about 30 students) that there was not enough seats on the bus and that we had to get off. (1) If you're the one over this trip to Madrid, clearly you ...
Life in Spain
... to experience Spain from a totally different point of view than I’d ever be exposed to without her. Bea and I woke up and got ready and then went to have lunch with her parents at her childhood home and then to her brother’s house for her nephew Mario's 3rd birthday party. Her parents and brother live 5 minutes from each other but Bea lives about 45 minutes from them. They live out in the country and it’s absolutely beautiful out there.
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Madrid: no better than we expected
... They hang around for hours in the middle of the day waiting for stuff to happen again, they wait at the supermarket before 10 so they can get in and buy their food, and often work till quite late making up for the broken day and slow progress. It's still rush-hour at 8pm! We think that it remains out of obstinate adherence to traditional rites.
Anyway, today, after spending an hour and a half at the SD (we ...



