Abba Madrid

... with the various statues around town. <br><br> My general assessment of Madrid is just what the title says. During the week it's generally pretty mild, with not much of anything to do, but when the weekend comes you better be ready to fight your way to the bar and party your ass off. The next days of the week were quite mild with not much to do, we ran out of our reserve of tourist sights and resigned ourselves to talking a bit and making our ...

Dear Faithful Readers, Today is el Dia de los Tres Reyes (Day of the Three Kings), so I have some time on my hands as everything is closed or packed. I have not updated you in a while, so I will describe the past few days. On Thursday, I slept until 3:00 PM, woke up and talked to my family on Skype and caught up on bills, banking, and the football recruiting sites that I love so much. I had not yet met Marni, but she sent me a message through Facebook asking if I wanted to meet. As ...

... Anyhow, I love the story so I just had to go and see the town (maybe I was looking for my own Dulcinea? :). Next morning was freezing, with a thick fog blanketing the town, but I ventured forth to follow Don Quixote's steps. I walked the "ruta literaria" (literary route) which follows a series of plaques quoting verses from the book, set around the town at the appropriate locations, then I visited Dulcinea's house and Don Quixote museum. After this very satisfying ritual I drove on to ...

... tanto comía bien) El segundo día ya arranqué con los museos, fuimos al Reina Sofía. Con lo cual ya vi la primera gran obra de arte que tanto quería ver: El Guernica. Qué emoción, lástima que no me dejaban acercar demasiado. Y fuera de eso muchísimas obras más, Dalí, Miró, más de Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Delaunay, Diego Rivera, Le Corbusier, Robert Capa, Max Ernst, Magritte, Man Ray, Cartier ...

... a leather good shop where I got a replacement wallet which will stay safely in my locker at the hostel until we move on to France, and finally we managed to find a bookshop where Belle picked up her English language, Spanish Cookbook. We eventually found our way back to Plaza Mayor where we had dinner of Seafood nd Chicken Paella and some Spanish Pork sausage. There is lots of Jamon (Ham) here in fact, many of the shops selling the Jamon are called Museo de Jamon ...

... pude ver en el<br>counter desl aeropuerto, pesando sus maletas y tapándose la cara por el<br>exceso de peso que llevaba. Me comenta, ahora en vuelo, que tuvo que<br>dejar varias de sus pertenencias con sus familiares, pues llevar el<br>doble del peso permitido (más de 40 kgs.) no es nada agradable de pagar.<br><br><br><br>Después de dejar de lado el libro de Isabel Allende que ha comprado y<br>ha ojeado un poco en estas horas, me cuenta un poco de su vida, pues ...

... father was amazed by the seating concept. I shared with him my movie theater experiences, with assigned seating and intermissions while we waited for everyone to file in. We both agreed it is a great idea to bring to the states, but figured it's one of those things that will never happen. A couple hours later and we exited the theater both agreeing it was the best Harry movie thus far and a great day altogether. Closing in on our trip together, each day just gets better and better.

... York Times and is called La Sanabresa (Amor de Dios 12). Dinner was good and we were served by the famous Joaquin. The writer who did the article for NYT is a friend of his and he wishes for his return. The restaurant wasn't so busy when we came in but was extremely busy in another hour by the time we were done. Dinner was adequate and easy on the pockets. After taking the Metro back to the hostal we collapsed and slipped into comas.

... that I realized how huge the park was. We had already been walking for hours and still we hadn't even covered a quarter of the Park. She told us which sights were a must before leaving the park so we headed in the direction she pointed us to. We walked for what seemed like miles, when we reached the Rose Garden the information person had talked to us about. She had mentioned that with the heat the roses which are usually large ...

... but thats what it lookes like when you are in the train. It is very dry terrain all around the city. We got off the train and then took the Metro to another station. I have to admit that i do not feel very comfortable riding in subways, trains anymore. Our London experience has caused this and Madrid had there bombings last year as well, so this is what i think about when im on the subways. It can happen anyhwere really so you can never feel to safe ...