Blogs from Madrid, District of Madrid, Spain, Europe - page 108

well its currently 6pm in Madrid and little chris arrived today, after much mucking about we finally met up. But back to Camdon markets for a wee bit: They were the most visually stimulating place to be, everywhere you looked there was something out of the norm, its set in the heart of old school punk rocker town, and the punk scene is still huge there, as is the gothic/vampire type look people had their everybrows shaved and tattooed in stead, and not just one or two every now & then, we are talking of hundreds of people who dress like this everyday. The markets would´ve of been 5 times the size of Paddy´s markets in sydney, stu & i were there for 6.5 hours and we still didn´t see everything!!! there was a huge section ... read more

Hi All, I am at the Madrid airport, waiting for my connection to Quito. Nothing much to tell, except that on the flight here, some french girl tried talking French to me. Why would someone on a flight from Israel to Spain speak French? I will write again from Quito. Erez.... read more

Since this travelblog's server crashed just before my trip I'm a little reluctant to keep a record of my trip on this site. Sorry to give everybody the runaround but i will be switching websites.... my new permanent web address for my trip will be: http://web.mac.com/ollieox thanks everyone bye for now Jack... read more

Madrid goes on and on and on etc... I have been to Madrid several times, parts of it hasn´t changed in years but there is a whole lot of it that is growing and changing all the time. They are adding neighborhoods the size of The Dalles but in 20 story apartment building, so it is much more compacted. Madrid is adding subway lines to reach these new "barrios", and it is already one of the largest subway systems in the world. In every city I visited there was new construction of houses, condos and apartments, Spains economy is one of the fastest growing in Europe. Tourist and people all over Madrid so I wasn´t very excited about standing in line for sites that I had already seen on previous trips, so I hopped on one ... read more

Travel blog for July 30th: Unfortunately the blog has been experiencing technical difficulties the past few days so I lost what I had been blogging the past couple days. To update, we went hiking in the mountains north of Madrid (about 1 hour) on Monday morning. We arrived early, about 9:30am to avoid the midday heat. We hiked for about an hour into the mountains and stopped in a shady area to have a snack (which Deanna had prepared for each of us and packed into our own little back packs ). We hiked back along the river and decided to stop and have a swim at a nice spot we had passed earlier along the way. At that time a couple and their dog had been skinny dipping there. At least the dog had fur. ... read more