Madrid, Spain Travel Blogs

Madrid.
Mar 8, 2008 (42 photos)

Madrid

A collection of untold stories from the road.
Apr 2, 2006

Through this blog I have tried to retell some of the most memorable stories from my trip around Latin America. As you may have noticed, a lot of the blog entries are just random thoughts while others actually try to describe some of the adventures I went ...

Photos from a stamp collector (Part 4).
Mar 5, 2006 (99 photos)

The last one, I promise. Enjoy!

A friendly Brazilian saves the weekend.
Mar 26, 2006

... 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 ...

Madrid celebrations.
Jun 29, 2008 (12 photos)

Madrid celebrations.

Madrid.
Jul 18, 2008 (25 photos)

Pål visiting again.

Madrid.
Dec 28, 2006

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My Bullshit Bingo thoughts in the Spanish capital.
Feb 15, 2006

... to see quite a bit of the city already, and also sampled the nightlife a few times (what did you expect???). Central Madrid seems pretty compact, so most interesting places are within walking distance. I think the city itself is pretty, with many nice ...

Checking out the neighborhood.
Aug 17, 2009 (10 photos)

Checking out the neighborhood.

Visitors from over there.
Apr 22, 2007 (5 photos)

... of the Longhorn Saloon as you may remember, came to 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 ...

I need to learn Spanish...
Oct 3, 2006 (61 photos)

... fucking stupid that I might just get away with it. Therefore, here are the Top 5 such places of the Europeans trip of the devil of the death from hell: 5. Istanbul 4. Barcelona 3. Santorini 2. Madrid 1. Sarajevo Santiago. Chile. Do it...

Andalucian visitors.
Jul 4, 2009 (17 photos)

Caroline and Gunnar visiting.

Despedida de soltero.
Jun 11, 2006

... . And I think we did??? There's bound to be some alcohol in the picture when you drop ten Norwegians in the middle of Madrid on a weekend. I guess we can say double blackout with a twist of amnesia, shaken, not stirred, was the cocktail of the day. It was ...

El Rastro, El Retiro and the Zoo.
Mar 18, 2007 (20 photos)

I know, I know, it's been almost two months since the last update. Motivation is a bit low on the blogging front these days. There's been no fancy trips or excursions the last couple of months, but at least I finally managed to visit the somewhat famous ...

A wimp in the city that never sleeps.
Feb 17, 2006

... 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, ...

On the outskirts.
Jun 28, 2009 (16 photos)

Checking out some of the pueblos around Madrid.

One year in the Spanish capital.
Jan 26, 2007 (7 photos)

... younger brother makes it down here soon so he can drag me to a game again. I have no idea for how long I will stay in Madrid. Before I came here I thought something like 12 to 18 months. After that the plan was somewhat to hit the road again. But now I ...

FOOD, FOOTBALL, AND LAUGHTER
Mar 14, 2007

... with butter and ham and cheese.  I wish I could wear cachapas on my head! Another highlight came at a small Madrid plaza, where I watched this homeless soccer player with wonder.  He was about twenty-nine, not bad-looking, like a Leonardo ...

Madrid aka The Hottest Place on Earth
Jul 2, 2004

We caught up to Libby (Sarah´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 ...

And then he was 37...
Oct 12, 2006 (11 photos)

... 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 friends turned up, Gerd ...

Photos from a stamp collector (Part 1).
Mar 4, 2006 (99 photos)

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 ...

Segway fame and 100.000 blog visitors.
Nov 23, 2006 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

Booze alert.
Jul 23, 2007 (3 photos)

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 ...

Being a tourist in your own city (the heat is on).
May 15, 2006 (40 photos)

... 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 like the ...

Madrid, Toledo, and Western Spain.
Feb 28, 2008 (28 photos)

... probably won´t updat her blog until the trip is finished. I´m digital, she´s analogue, to each their own.)  Day 4 - Leaving Madrid I DO hovever, remember that I had a splitting headache the next morning and it was a reason to sleep in until we had to ...

WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN YOU VISIT SPAIN
Mar 12, 2007

... 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 ...

My first visitors and how about a taxi right now!
Feb 28, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

Layover
Dec 10, 2005

... part of the world often provide few services. They didn't even provide water without charging for it. Transferring planes in Madrid was an interesting experience. It was good we had a three-hour layover! Most of the time was spent changing terminals ...

I can see the headlines. Furious Dane goes...
Apr 10, 2006

... of him. The next thing I remember gives me flashbacks from Popayán in Colombia. I am in some apartment somewhere in Madrid drinking Aguardiente with a bunch of locals and Colombians. The Dane however is nowhere to be seen... "What happened to the Dane ...

We really are all one...
Nov 25, 2007

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 ...