NH Parque Avenidas Madrid

... are all maintained there in one room. Staggering. <br><br>In the evening on the way to dinner, we got our first precipitation. Fortunately, we ran into one of those $5 umbrella guys (actual 2 for 5 Euro) who seem to appear whenever it rains in a big city, justifying our last-minute decision to leave the rain jackets behind. After dinner we had a &#8220;fino&#8221; at the la Toro ...

... br>I then headed back to the hostel,<br>collected my bags and made it to the airport. The<br>flight left on time and I landed in Madrid without incident. Using<br>my limited Spanish, I told the taxi driver where to go and wee<br>conversed briefly in the taxi. <br><br>The hotel, the Vincci Via<br>66 is centrally located. By this point it was after 9 and I was<br>hungry. By the time I got myself situated it was nearly 10...and<br>then I headed out for a restaurant in my ...

... giving us way too much information for our liking. I made it through the class and took a bus to the other campus to meet Jacobo #2. I think I neglected to put this in my previous blog entry. Our program director told us that there was a student interested in doing an exchange program, I guess you could call it, where an American student meets with a Spanish student at our school here, and each get to respectively practice their English and Spanish. I was for sure ...

... Marta y Ant, casi camino de 4 y 5 años que no nos veíamos...y me encantó volver a reencontrarnos...estan geniales...y siguen siendo increíbles... Además tuvimos la gran suerte de comprobar in situ y real, el nuevo business de ellos y poder ver Madrid desde otro punto de vista...y fué.....la leche.... Se mantendrá en nuestra memoria todos esos momentos de ese día y mi reencuentro con vosotras...

... market research, financial forecasts, legal analysis, environmental analysis, printing, binding, the list goes on. This whole year, a week hasn't gone by without something that needed to be done with the business plan, and for it to be over is really surreal, almost unsettling. This month was especially insane though, putting the whole ...

... a shooting of Spanish revolutionaries by members of the French Army on 3 May 1808, and "El Fusilamiento de Torrijos" by Antonio Gisbert. Equally affective, yet disturbing was Goya's Saturn, a painting of the Roman God Saturn devouring one of his children, in fear that the child will grow to kill him and take his place as ruler of the gods. Interesting style in parenting, for sure... My last day in Madrid was spent shopping at the Rastro ...

... renaissance and baroque works. We took the audio tour here and dedicated the whole day to the place. I learned that I really enjoyed some of the Flemish and Dutch artists (despite the fact that they supposedly focus more on precision and accuracy in their artworks rather than the romantic reckless abandon as per their Italian and Spanish counterparts). I liked Van Eyck, Witwael, Moreau and Feininger. [This is more for me than anyone else - just so ...

... to spend time with her was a great thrill. I was having trouble remembering her name, thinking that she had said Kathleen, but thinking that her name was Katerina. And I was right -- she says Kathleen as she doesn't think non-Germans can pronounce her name. And indeed, I had trouble, pronouncing it with an Italian accent by accident. (Kat-uh-REEEEN-uh) And so it stuck. We used my guide book to hit up a tapas bar renowned for their cheap wine, Casa del ...

... just pretend you are a city boy for now ;-) Gunnar is an old friend and colleague of Alf Kåre, and I was first introduced to him in Reading about five years ago, where he was working in IT support for another big multinational company. After Alf Kåre moved from Reading and back to Stockholm, I continued spending a lot of my time with Gunnar and his English wife Caroline at their house in Caversham, enjoying their home cooking and drinking all their beer. Gunnar and Caroline are ...

... in lower Nubia, in the south of Egypt, and was a major religious centre dedicated to the godess Isis... Baisically, that was my introduction to Madrid, the guys at the hostel are great, I was able to suffer the loss of Boca to River in the middle of 4 argentineans,2 brazilians, 1 english guy and 1 very hammered yank!....surprisingly enough the only aussie, not to mention female was me, oh well, cant say Im complaining!! How are you all? .....write me!! lots fo love xo