Country Info
- Madrid
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 40,037,995
- Population
- ES
- Country Code
Madrid Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands
Nine Months Down, On the Homestretch, Again
This is a top pick! ... sorry those guys have such a tough time ahead of them with no boat. I have spent the last 10 days in Madrid. Even though it is summer and the city is packed with tourists, the place still has an incredibly relaxed ‘vibe’. I could ...
A New Record - hours in the air
This is a top pick! ... was on my back…..Figured I could still stand up so I decided to take the subway to try and find my hostel…….cheap cheap. Arrived in Madrid – 30 degrees, hot hot after being cool, cool for the last little while. Had ...
A collection of untold stories from the road.
This is a top pick! ... lot throughout the night. On our way home early in the morning, we met about ten local musicians in a Vallenato band. And since I really like Vallenato, I decided to rent the whole band for a two hour morning jam session outside the Charleston Cartagena ...
I need to learn Spanish...
This is a top pick! ... a bin, a stick and a honky nut somewhere. To offset this tranquility, Madrid has silly, silly nightlife. Pablo and Bea, the brilliant Madrid locals that I met in Morocco, certainly assisted in my drinking myself to near death, for which I am ...
A friendly Brazilian saves the weekend.
This is a top pick! ... Carrefour, the big supermarket chain, but found it closed. Great, it's Sunday, that means pretty much closed shops here in Madrid. I continued walking around Colonia Jardin looking for a corner shop, but I found none. I could of course just have taken ...
My Bullshit Bingo thoughts in the Spanish capital.
This is a top pick! ... has changed!" I hope it's all part of the "Homecoming Blues" and not just selfish me (some friends just called me from the Canary Islands, where they are on a weeks holiday. "We are on the beach now, drinking kick-ass cocktails while watching the sunset". ...
Visitors from over there.
This is a top pick! ... visit me all the way from Seattle for a short weekend here in Madrid. Well, they were actually on their European summer tour around Norway, Spain and France. No matter what, it was very nice to see them again after such a long time. I had not seen HK ...
Madrid owes us two passports
This is a top pick! ... ’re left with a hard drive full of pictures instead of an inheritance. Life’s tough kids. We touched down in Madrid airport and got onto a train to the centre of town. A couple of train changes later we arrived at our hotel. We were excited ...
Despedida de soltero.
This is a top pick! ... opening game between Germany and Costa Rica, but that's about it. Nine friends from my hometown Elverum in Norway arrived in Madrid that very evening. All here to celebrate our good friend Mick's "despedida de soltero", also known as the bachelor party. ...
El Rastro, El Retiro and the Zoo.
This is a top pick! ... 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 the city. I ...
A wimp in the city that never sleeps.
This is a top pick! ... got to taste the mid-week nightlife in Madrid. I had heard all about it before I came here, how the Madrileños (people from Madrid) don't need to sleep. So it's not just the tourists and students who can skip class next day who go out mid-week, no, ...
FOOD, FOOTBALL, AND LAUGHTER
This is a top pick! There were a couple of highlights from the low trip to Spain ... Gerardo, a sensitive and well-meaning guy, is learned in the fine art of cooking. You always eat well at Gerardo's. But, he told me one day in his kitchen: "Tu puedes dejar de ...
One year in the Spanish capital.
This is a top pick! ... thought something like 12 to 18 months. After that the plan was somewhat to hit the road again. But now I don't know. I thoroughly enjoy Madrid and it's climate, work is pretty OK at the moment, I have got a few good friends, and most importantly, I ...
Madrid aka The Hottest Place on Earth
This is a top pick! ... sister) again in Madrid. I think the temperature was somewhere around, oh, the temperature of molten lava. It doesn´t help that Madrid is all concrete and cement pavers and the there are almost no trees in the city. Our hotel was not too far from the ...
And then he was 37...
This is a top pick! ... back one day soon, both the inspiration and the intrepid adventure. Johana threw a birthday party for me in her apartment, and since all my "friends" here in Madrid had other plans for the day, I had to borrow some of hers :-) Well, actually one of my ...
Segway fame and 100.000 blog visitors.
This is a top pick! ... night me and a couple of friends were filmed and interviewed by Telemadrid while we were speeding around the touristy parts of Madrid on Segways Madsegs. This program was broadcasted on Saturday night (we are talking prime time here :-), and it included ...
Booze alert.
This is a top pick! Neal, one of my childhood friends from Norway, visited me and Johana in Madrid this weekend. I remember sun, 8 hours drinking beer on Plaza Santa Ana on Saturday afternoon, good food and a visit to the Rastro with more beer and tapas on Sunday. That's ...
Love Madrid
This is a top pick! ... night and then waking up at 10 or 11 in the morning. We did manage to find some museums, art museums, beautiful parks and fountains. I found Madrid very smooth and clean, full of beautiful architecture modern and old. Maybe because it is flat and spread ...
Being a tourist in your own city (the heat is on).
This is a top pick! ... garden, I end up spending the rest of my Monday running around town snapping photos of some of the more touristy sights. And while Madrid maybe isn't a classic beauty like Rome, at least it doesn't have the same amount of famous landmarks, I still really ...
WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN YOU VISIT SPAIN
This is a top pick! ... a month ago I gave up on my plans to hitchhike across the Atlantic on a cargo boat. Dejectedly, I flew; my flight reached Madrid, Spain on January 31st. Another option would've been for me and my funny little American friend, Jason Fox, to buy a ...
Layover
This is a top pick! ... airport is renowned for being a real bottleneck of air traffic. Yeah, it must be getting close to Christmas. There were carols playing on the plane and Christmas trees at both the Casablanca and Madrid airports. It all seems kind of strange . . . ...
Hello Madrid, goodbye Nick
This is a top pick! I was very sad to see Nick go, but he had to head back to Australia, and I headed to Madrid. Madrid was lovely though, with temperatures in the mid 30´s. I visited the Prado museum, which had a good Picasso exhibition. The Buen Retiro Park was also ...