The Secret of Eating Out in Madrid Rosemary Kneipp, March 11, 2012May 6, 2015 Not that I really discovered the secret. Our bacalao experience was only the start. The first morning, we set off from our home exchange flat for desayuno and saw that a lot of cafés were offering the American-style breakfasts we had seen in Seville obviously geared towards tourists, with fried… Continue Reading
Sunday’s Travel Photos – Madrid: Bronze Statues Rosemary Kneipp, March 10, 2012March 27, 2017 When we arrived at our home exchange flat in Madrid, the first thing we saw was an extremely realistic bronze lamp lighter. During our visit, we found four other bronze statues of the same kind plus a “fake” one in the form of a “living statue”. It was amusing to… Continue Reading
Off the Beaten Track in Madrid Rosemary Kneipp, March 5, 2012July 28, 2013 Apart from the Prado, Madrid’s main attraction to me are all the unusual things you keep coming across that I’ve never seen anywhere else. These are just some of them. You can just see a building on the left that’s a squat and has signs up that seem to indicate… Continue Reading
The Bacalao in Madrid Rosemary Kneipp, March 4, 2012February 22, 2014 Before we left Paris, Miguel, our Spanish home exchanger, had a look at the list a French friend had given me with places to eat near the Plaza Mayor. The first address was El Madrono. “Ah yes”, he said in Spanish, “El Madrono is good, but just across the plaza,… Continue Reading