Place: Madrid, Spain Hemingway once described Spain as a masculine country. Its beauty is rugged and warm, enfolding you into its embrace, but only if you allow it. The brief time I spent in Madrid revealed a culture that is similar in values to my own. Somewhere a door unlocked and I let the culture run through me. Madrid essentially is an engaging, sexy city. Walking around on the first day, I found myself synchronizing to the pulse of the city, stepping out of Philadelphia time and into Madrid time. As appealing as this trip sounded to me, I did not want to wander off to Spain alone. I managed to talk 3 friends into joining me in this adventure. The four of us; Max, Joe, Debbie and myself found ourselves planning a trip to into
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