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Madrid (Feb 11 - 14)
Adrianjl stayed here on Feb 11, 2010 during their trip titled: Adrian's Travel Blog.
Flamenco and taking over the dance floor
... in the rain for an hour to successfully avoid the 12€ entry fee), the Royal Palace (which we did not make it to, but refer to my previous Madrid post if you want to see photos), el Retiro, the giant park of huge ponds, an artichoke statue and broccoli trees, and Chueca, la Latina, Lavapies and every other cool neighborhood you’d want to check out while in Madrid! We even made it across town to the National ...
More Madrid
... stretch for many blocks.
As we came back to where we had started at Puerto del Sol, we alighted from the bus and decided to take a further look at the Plaza Mayor as this was the centre of the Spanish Inquisition, which we had learnt so much about at school.
From there we walked through one of the arches toward the Mercado de San Miguel, which is a market place filled wtih ...
Tapas in Madrid
... tour which took us all around the city and explained some of the history of Spain. Apparently it’s only been a true democracy since the 1980s. I also found out that Spain’s economy is worse than I thought. Spain’s official unemployment rate is about 21%, which means one in every five people are out of work. However, the black market is apparently strong, ...
Back I Go To Spain
... I met the most amazing girl, her name is Debora, and she is from Brazil. To my surprise she spoke perfect English, and we spent the rest of the day talking and laughing, and before I knew it night had come and we were both exhausted. Debora left the next morning to go to Barcelona, and now she is back in Brazil, but I am so glad that I got to meet her.
The next day I met up with Scott and some of his friends from school for lunch, we went to this great ...