Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands Travel Blogs

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... 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 ...

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... 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 the ...

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Madrid celebrations.

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Pål visiting again.

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... 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". " ...

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Checking out the neighborhood.

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... 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 since I ...

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... 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 eternally ...

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Caroline and Gunnar visiting.

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... 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. ...

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... 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 hope ...

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... finally 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, ...

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Checking out some of the pueblos around Madrid.

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... 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 have met ...

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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 ...

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... ´s 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 ...

A travel blog entry by philthy
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... 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 ...

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Now that I have kind of decided to continue blogging from Madrid, at least for now, I thought it would be fun to upload some of my photos from the other trips I have done over the years. Writing a trip-report from all these journeys would of course have ...

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... 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 me ...

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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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... and senic routes aren't covered in our passes. It was just coincedence that the only two special routes out of Madrid were to Toledo and Segovia. Just our bad luck starting off I guess. We walked home from the Train station looking around and enjoying the ...

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... 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 ...

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... You can read more and see pictures from this adventurous project here: Caroline and Gunnar's project and new life in Spain And how was the weekend here in Madrid spent you say? Well, we didn't get to see much of the city's touristy sites. Instead we ...

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... 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 . . . .

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... is Danish. He's come all the way from Copenhagen on his own for a long weekend, and with only one mission in mind... To go and see Real Madrid play Real Sociedad in La Liga. "It's been my favorite team as long as I can remember. I have never seen them ...

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Spent a week outside of Spain in a small village called Buenaventura participating in a Monroe Institute Gateway...you can read about Robert Monroe who founded the Institute in Virginia here:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe I ...

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