Ritz Madrid

... ;.Madrid….on track to see my baby!  After a couple of hiccups pulled into the driveway in front of the Ritz…home in Madrid.  This is one of my favorite hotels anywhere…the door men here are the most outstanding….so polite ...

... , no entanto, pois a previsão era de fortes nevascas e a orientação na TV era evitar as estradas. Chegamos em Madrid e ao anoitecer tudo foi coberto de branco, a cidade ficou um caos com gigantes congestinamentos e inúmeros acidentes. Felizmente já ...

... grand and had over 2800 rooms! We ended the day off with a tour of Estadio Santiago Bernabeu - the Stadium of the famed Real Madrid soccer team. I will admit that I was hesitant to go and tour this stadium (it was a ways out from the city center) but ...

... needed a bit more.  I bought some fruit, bread, and water and headed off to tour the city.  I purchased a ticket on the Madrid Vision.  It is a double decker bus that allows you to hop on and off at any stop.  But, it has earphones ...

... not?  Because if you do you might get chirpies, and it WON'T be tweetable. Today we tried to cross our Madrid t's and dot our madrileno i's.  Lhardy's--check!  A Madrid institution on Carrera de San Jeronimo since 1839, its facade ...

... , the temple is absolutely gorgeous! On Sunday morning, I went to the Rastro once again, which is the massive flea market here in Madrid.  I purchased 2 scarves, which were only 1 euro a piece!  Also, I got a bag that would be convenient for ...

... a pretty sketchy neighborhood to the pool, only to find out that the indoor lap pool doesn't open until September 1 (many things in Madrid are closed until then), and the people working there don't know anything about the lap pool, so we would have to ...

... and Julia. We went to a tapas bar and then walked around Sol and the plaza mayor. Sol is an open area in the center of Madrid that is considered the Times Square of Madrid. They say it is the exact center of Spain and that all roads go out from it, like ...

... to spend the day in the park. This included a hot sandwich of a sort of olive loaf with brie and butter, square versions of Ritz crackers, an apple, and these flavored fudgy candies that sort of crumble when you bite into them.   **Every time I was ...

... prepared from the mayhem that would unfold in a few short hours.  We hopped on the metro and headed uptown to Real Madrid’s stadium.  We realized the severity of our situation once we got off the train and thousands of people were making ...

... travel with us in Spain. As we hadn't seen her since last August, we were elated, and we had a beautiful reunion at the Madrid airport. Shortly after meeting up, we flew out to Barcelona. We'd planned on spending a few days there before heading to ...

31/12 Madrid e Berlim O dia começou cedo em Madrid. Acordamos às 4:30h da manhã para que pudéssemos deixar o hotel às 5:55h com o transfer para o aeroporto. Tudo ocorreu muito bem e embora a distância seja grande, as ruas estavam vazias de carro. ...

... station. Did some more sightseeing including the Bull Fighter Stadium. The season had just ended the week before. Tried getting into the Ritz Madrid but were promptly turned away (the small backpacks we had on must have given us away - how were we to ...