Hostal Metropol

... too easy to manuever through security and collect my luggage. Then I had to figure out how to get from the airport to the Hostel Metropol at Gran Via without using a shuttle or taxi. After all, we´re supposed to be hoofing it. Not too bad, I had to ...

... ; Gran Via is a road comparable to Time Square in New York.  It is always full of people, day and night.  Our hostal balcony looked out onto to Gran Via.  The McDonalds next to our hotel was the classiest McDonalds I’ve ever seen in ...

On arrival in Madrid we were lucky enough to meet up with an old colleague, Frank from South Africa who had relocated to Madrid a few years earlier. Frank was then kind enough to act as tour guide and took us on a luxurious drive past some of the ...

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As stated in our previous entry, our initial impressions of Madrid was that it was a little seedy. We arrived right in the middle of Madrid (Puerta del Sol) at night and it was very busy. What we would find was that Sol was always busy, there were just ...

Today we decided to exscape Madrid for the day and visit the romantic mountain town of Segovia.  Tossing up the options of travelling there by train or bus we opted for the bus.  This turned out to be a fantastic choice as it was cheaper and ...

Today we were up early to go for a morning jog in the beautiful Parque de el Retiro.  This used to be the royals´ private gardens but have been open to the public since the 1800´s.  With this run we bearly scratched the surface of this ...

We decided to treat ourselves and woke up on our own accord this morning.  This was a nice change to having an alarm sounding in your ear.  We had a frustrating morning trying to book flights in South America due to what appears to be the ...

This morning we arrived in Madrid on the over night bus fom Lisbon at 6am.  We managed to navogate the subway and arrived at our hostel just off Puetra del Sol (the official centre of both Madrid and Spain) where, thankfully we had a room to check ...

Today I took my last official busabout trip through the regular loops.  It was a very long day but I met a couple of people who are going on my Spain/Portugal tour tomorrow so it is good.  We arrived in Madrid around 6 and we headed for ...

So my travel break started bright and early, actually it wasn't so bright because the sun hadn't risen yet. We get to the airport in Paris where we see a bunch of others from our program also getting ready to leave for break. We get on our flight and ...

After Barcelona, Kelly, Angie and I set off for Madrid while Laura flew to Malta to be with some of her friends who were studying there. We took the night train to Madrid which we were a little uneasy about since it's about an 8 hour ride and we wanted ...

We have spent the past 2 days in Madrid. This was quite nice aside from it being really cold and raining all the second day. The first day we went on a walking tour of the city and heard a bit more about Spanish history. It was really interesting and I ...