Blogs from District of Madrid, Spain, Europe - page 4

GÜN 01 ŞUBAT 2018 CUMA Uçuş, tüm endişelerimin aksine ,çok rahat geçti . Zira yanımda yer alan çift ,nedense uçağın bilinmedik bir yerlerine taşındı.. Madrid Barajas havaalanının, transfer olacaklara çok dost ve yardımcı olduğu söylenemez.. Önce transfer olacağım uçağın yerini öğrendim. Bulunduğum kattaki görevli ,adeta kulağına yapışmış telefona yanıt vermediği bir zaman diliminde, bana üst kata çıkmam gerektiğini anlattı.. Dünya kadar yürüdüm.. Üst katta ki görevli yoh dedi...kapıdan geçirmedi zira alttaki görevlinin telefon ederek geleceğimi bildirmesi gerekiyormuş.. Haydi gerisin geriye aşağı dön... kadın özür diledi ve telefon etti.. Tekrar tırmandık.. Dünya kadar yol gidip tekrar kapıya geldik Nihayet denetimden geçerek uçuş alanına girmeyi başardım.. Gel gelel... read more

November 6th Madrid We took an Uber from our Nantes hotel to the airport at about 12 noon. We were flying Volotea Air to Madrid, departing at 3pm and had paid for first row seating which got us on and off quickly. The flight still only cost us $75 each. We had prebooked a shuttle and our driver knew some English so we learned a few things about Madrid along the way. There is an amazing underground road system that runs under the city and it got us to our rental property by 6pm. We were greeted at the door by our host, Jose Manuel, and welcomed into his beautiful apartment on the 7th floor with a large penthouse terrace overlooking the city. The grocery store across the street furnished us well with food and drink ... read more

Wednesday we hopped a train to Madrid. Matrid is located almost directly center of Spain and like Logrono is surrounded by low lands of scrub brush and lots of olive trees. It has a population of about 3.5 million with a metropolitan area of about 6 million. Many of the buildings are fairly recent (since about the 18th century) because of the down turn of Spain after spending all their money fighting the British and the French during the 1500s and 1600s. In th early 19th century, Madrid looked more like a small town than a modern city. During the 20th century the popultion doubled. After the death of Franco and the start of the democratic regime, the 1978 constitution confirmed Madrid as the capital of Spain. Benefitting from increasing prosperity in the 1980's and 1990's, ... read more

I’m writing this on the train on our way from Madrid to Cordoba – I’ve been slacking bigtime with the travel blogging. Guess we’re just having too much fun! I try to do this blog mostly for myself so that I can look back and remember the best parts of our trips and what I liked and didn’t like, so I am going to try to do my Madrid/Toledo/Cordoba recap all in two blog posts if I can! Here it goes the first which will be mainly Madrid… Saturday around noon, we arrived in Madrid and made it to our hotel – Hotel Ritz Madrid. I assumed that it was part of the Ritz Carleton chain, but apparently there are several Hotel Ritz’s around Europe. I believe that the Ritz of the Ritz Carleton chain is ... read more

We started the day at home and went to a market called Mercado de San Miguel. It had a lot of different food. I chose two salami and tomato baguettes and a cone of real potato chips. We walked to a park and on the way Daddy and I went on a two story carousel. We went on a carriage that rocked side to side. The park had paddle boats, it was called Parque del Buen Retiro. I read a book called the Land of Stories (thanks William) on a picnic rug next to the lake on a grassy hill. Because you only had 45 minutes on the boat, Zoe and I swapped places. I saw dead fish in the lake and real fish and a turtle. Daddy let me row and I was really good ... read more