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Travel Blogs from Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands

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Cultured weekend in Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Cultured weekend in Madrid

A travel blog entry by tammyjoe

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... is a huge museum and we only had two hours in it, nevertheless we still saw loads including paintings by Rembrant, Monet, Goya and El Greco, we both really enjoyed it we also looked around a temporary exhibition in a nearby building first which was also ...

Italy reunion, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Italy reunion

A travel blog entry by skye

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... opportunity to spend 5 weeks on the beach! But at the same time I was definitely looking forward to being back in Madrid and civilization. Last night we threw together an inmpromptu reunion of those who went on the Italy trip...amazingly, out of 15 ...

The Flamenco Experience, Madrid Spain, Spain travel blog

The Flamenco Experience

A travel blog entry by amazingone

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... travelling maybe we can get together over a coffee / wine when I get home.  Lets continue: So   here we are in Madrid, Spain !  That first evening set the pace for what was to be a renewed way of looking at the world (from a time ...

Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid

A travel blog entry by goalie121

... here as well, but I hear that Chitown is pretty steamy right now also, but at least we have air conditioning and free water at home. Madrid is a big, noisy modern city. There are wide boulevards, big plazas, and lots of the modern amentities of ...

Chegando em Madrid, Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands travel blog

Chegando em Madrid

A travel blog entry by erikapessoa

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... . Saiu correndo olhando, olhando, quando menos espero vejo um onibuis saindo, tento ler o que ta escrito emcima, la esta Madrid-Barcelona. Pensei: lascou (na verdade pensei aquela palavra que nao posso escrever num blog aberto a todas as idades). So que o ...

Partyýng ýn Madrýd, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Partyýng ýn Madrýd

A travel blog entry by joules

... only thýng worse than gettýng kýcked out of bed early ýs gettýng kýcked out of a chaýr early), I arrýved ýn Madrýd and promptly hunted out some accomodatýon. Once that waz sorted (or so I thought), I went and strolled over to the Royal ...

Everyone has a chink in their Armour, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Everyone has a chink in their Armour

A travel blog entry by cccd

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... his swindling... We then got to see the disappointing Ireland match... Great atmosphere in The Dubliner's bar in Madrid. Plenty of French and Irish. 6 Crona for 10 euro... not bad. After witnessing  the mighty Irish lose ...

Ready to start school again!!, Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands travel blog

Ready to start school again!!

A travel blog entry by morada2007

... -Garde and the Generation of '27. It's a poetry class, and unlike every single person I've met, I actually really like poetry, and Spanish poetry is even prettier. Shakira's songs are always better en español. I'd like to get this Skype thing figured ...

Bocadillas, Bocadillas, Bocadillas!, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Bocadillas, Bocadillas, Bocadillas!

A travel blog entry by winston

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... del Ben Retiro. Here we found the Puerta de Alcalá, which is a large granite structure that used to be the main entrance gate to Madrid from the city of Alcalá de Henares. In the Parque del Ben Retiro we also managed to find the Monumento a Alfonso XII ...

1st Day.... Very Funny (to everyone but me!), Madrid, Spain travel blog

1st Day.... Very Funny (to everyone but me!)

A travel blog entry by alexingranada

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... , seriously like 6, streets all come together. My cab bill came to 20 euros, about $27 US, but aparently it´s some holiday in Madrid or Spain or something, so all taxi´s are "doble" (double) I tried to argue with him, but I was far too tired, so my ...

the end of south america, Madrid, Spain travel blog

the end of south america

A travel blog entry by roni_katya

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äé ëåìí, îä ðùîò? àðçðå ëáø ëîä éîéí îáìåú ìðå áîãøéã, àáì àðçðå îøâéùåú öåøê ìòãëï àúëí âí áëîä çååéåú ù÷øå ìðå áãøåí àîøé÷ä. àæ ðúçéì ...

Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid

A travel blog entry by tomma

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Ok so finally made it to Madrid, the capital, the next day. Crazy place, much bigger and much more confusing then Barcelona. Went to the Royal palace and blah blah blah the usual sightseeing, later went to some park and got offered weed by about 10 ...

Madrid Princesses, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid Princesses

A travel blog entry by amsmitty

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... have dropped over $150 on each of us in one day. It was unbelievable...the sky was the limit!! We left Madrid rested, with clean laundry, great memories and undoubtedly a few pounds heavier. We are so grateful to all the people who took such good care of ...

Where´s the Stadium???, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Where´s the Stadium???

A travel blog entry by steph_444

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... right inside the gate. No it´s never that simple is it. Got talking to a girl at breakfast yesterday morning and was asking her what she was up to in Madrid. She told me about this ATP tennis tour thing that she had heard was on right now in the ...

Madrid and Il Tomatino, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid and Il Tomatino

A travel blog entry by whatboundaries

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Madrid, Spain What a beautiful city...and I promise we'll update the blog soon, but we wanted to let everyone know that this Wednesday we'll be in Valencia for the Il Tomatina - the throwing of the tomatos! Here's a link -- you have to see the video ...

Arriving in Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Arriving in Madrid

A travel blog entry by kusa

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... natürlich von Vorteil, so muss ich auch wirklich Spanisch lernen, doch es ist schon ein bisschen bedenklich. Das wär's soweit aus Madrid. Den nächsten Eintrag schreibe ich dann hoffentlich aus meiner neuen Wohnung in Toledo. Hasta luego Don ...

Last day in Spain, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Last day in Spain

A travel blog entry by maria-puhl

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Yep, our last official full day in Spain is finally here.  And we're all ready for it to be over and to get home.     We got up this morning and headed to the metro, to meet Amy at the Sol metro stop.  She was in London this ...

Loving Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Loving Madrid

A travel blog entry by tammyjoe

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On Thursday we went to Parque Retiro (a huge park in the centre of Madrid). On the way we stopped at a market and bought things to have a tapas picnic with, these included olives, sweet red peppers, chorizo, pan con tomate and of course San Miguel. We sat ...

Espana, Campeones!!, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Espana, Campeones!!

A travel blog entry by lisaviro1981

What a send off after 5 struggling months of rainy, over worked life in Madrid- Spain, the perpetual underdogs of the footballing world have finally won something, the Eurocopa 2008 to boot! The whole city went crazy last night with hysterical/drunk ...

Art of War, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Art of War

A travel blog entry by cupcrazy1994

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... Tintoretto. Powerful, dramatic, violent art. It is the stuff that gives Spain its edge and marks even the shortest and tamest of visits to Madrid with a razor sharp slash across the conscience of any citizen whose country is at war. Twice we visited ...

The Land of Bullfights, Flamenco, and Sangria, Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands travel blog

The Land of Bullfights, Flamenco, and Sangria

A travel blog entry by scooterandlaura

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... More on that later as we are about to go see the city.  With 13 days until our friend Molly comes to meet up with us in Switzerland, we are trying to go around Spain, Portugal, southern Spain, and perhaps Morocco before our deadline.  ...

New Roomy, Madrid, Spain and Canary Islands travel blog

New Roomy

A travel blog entry by morada2007

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I have a new roommate, and she is nice.  Her name is Katie, and she is from Georgia.  I think she'll be fun to travel with. I might be going to see a bullfight Saturday night!  Very excited.  Maybe Ferdinand will be ...

Valo in Barcelona, Barcelona/Stockholm, Spain travel blog

Valo in Barcelona

A travel blog entry by krysten

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... planned to have breakfast at the Boqueria Market (like the St. Lawrence Market in TO), but it was obviously closed when we arrived - SPAIN! We wandered for over an hour trying to find something to eat and ended up at Pans & Company (the Spanish version ...

Trip to...., Madrid, Spain travel blog

Trip to....

A travel blog entry by morada2007

... an English speaking country.  I am going to go May 20th, about a week after finals are done with.  I want to tour parts of Madrid that I still have yet to see after school is out, then go to London.  Since I have to be back in Madrid to go ...

Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid

A travel blog entry by gustn

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A ...

Coolest City in Europe?, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Coolest City in Europe?

A travel blog entry by dane

Incredible people, great art museums, parks, a great night life...Madrid has it all.  It was the most fun I had in Europe.  A lot of it is probably the people we met, but Madrid is defnitely a fantastic ...

Nearly home..., Madrid, Spain travel blog

Nearly home...

A travel blog entry by davidandem

nearly ...

In Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

In Madrid

A travel blog entry by randyandgloria

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... blue skies and warm temps (around 23-25 degrees). Madrid is a wonderful city. We have spent the whole day touring the old part of Madrid and finished it off with two jugs of Sangria (which was delicious). We are back in our room now but I don't think ...

Madrid - Ramon Freixa, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid - Ramon Freixa

A travel blog entry by sophiatravels

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Today we went for lunch at Ramon Freixa Madrid and spent four hours enjoying the vast array of delights on the degustation menu (attached to this post). I don't really know where to begin to describe it, but it was without doubt one of the best meals ...

Madrid, Madrid, Spain travel blog

Madrid

A travel blog entry by melvic

Dear Blog, I have been a little slack with my blogs lately. Its been a week since we left Madrid so thought i'd better write about it. We took a nice comfy train from Barcelona and arrived in the afternoon on the Friday. The Hostel was ok, we were in a ...

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