Hostal Laris Madrid
Calle del Barco 3 Madrid, Madrid, 28004, Spain and Canary Islands
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Billions of Humans of the Spanish Variety
Today I walked 40,000 miles and saw all of Madrid by foot. It was a holiday, who knows what this time (culturally ignorant, sure, but really there are so many), which means something very different here than it does in O Barco. Where does every single Spaniard from a smaller town go on a day off of school and work? MADRID. I really saw millions of people today. The streets were filled. I panicked but I did not back down. ...
Sun, Shopping and Sangria! Olé!
... and collected some supplies for dinner. Whilst at the hostel we met some of the other guests and went out for some drinks with them at La Latina bar district, which had a buzzing Friday night atmosphere.
We spent the following day visiting the Reina Sofia modern art museum and relaxing at Retiro park in the sunshine. The art museum was free entry on a Saturday which was great, but was soo big that it was quite exhausting and we didn't see everything. We did see ...
Madrid stories
... off to our final museo – Reine Sofia – to see what is touted as Spain’s most famous painting - by Picasso – Guernica and it too was as incredible as all that it is described to be. With his cubist style he had captured so much of the feelings of war, of the town of Guernica being bombed by Hitler as sort of a “practice” arrangement between Hitler and Franco. Many disturbing paintings of those times throughout the museo . Enjoyed ...
Mierda in madrid - the hardest floor in the world
... and thought this was the worst thing that could have happened. We went to the place where our luggage was supposed to be. It was closed. We got sent to here there and everywhere, and no bags. We were really starting to lose hope, it was looking pretty grim and I was running on empty. The final place we had been told to go, was all the way at the other end of the airport. It took us about 30 minutes to get there, only to be laughed at by this horrific, ...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ...
... the gate just before our noses.
Result: we missed our connection to Rio de Janeiro and are currently stuck in Madrid. If all goes well, we might be able to leave again tonight, to fly via Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. We're on the waiting lists, so if that fails, we have a certified Rio-flight on the 22nd of December. So we might be up for a few days ...
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