I've been recently in Madrid, and here goes some advices about which places you must visit, and where you should go. The first place you should go to and have a walk is the centre of the town. I think that any tourist hasn't known the city if hasn´t been in Sol, Plaza de España, Gran Vía and so on. It's better going early in the morning, because the rest of the day there is a crowd of people and it is a bit stressful.
Then you should have lunch at Casa Lucio, if you don't mind the price. It is located in La Latina neighborhood, in Cava Baja street. I think it is the most representative restaurant in Madrid. But if you have a small budget, it's better going for "tapas" for example. In La Latina there are a lot of pubs also, where if you buy a drink, the tapas are free.
After lunch you can go to a park to have a little rest. In Madrid there are many beautiful parks, the most famous is El Retiro, but there are other places that could be more comfortable, with less peopole around like Campo del Moro in Príncipe Pío. After that you must visit some of the most famous museums of Madrid, like El Prado, Thyssen Bornemisza, or Reina Sofía, to name a few.
If you want to have an afternoon meal you should go to San Ginés, near Sol and Plaza Mayor, where you can ask for a drinking chocolate, and enjoy it with churros or porras, that are dough formed into sticks or rings and fried in oil, very tasty and typical. If you don't like sweets you can have a beer in a terrace, in summer and spring there are a lot of terraces in the penthouses of some hotels or buildings, for instance there is one in Tirso de Molina or in Santa Ana Square.
And if you like football, you can have dinner in the Real Café, a little restaurant in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. There you can enjoy the views of the field while you are eating on the second floor, and have a drink downstairs with nice musik.
November 2009 Archives
My travel to Amsterdam.
I went there to learn english in this country, everybody speak English and they are really nice. My first job was to find a good school, it was no easy because of the price and because of the level, at the end I founded a very good one with people from every parts of the world: Argentinian, Nederlands, Portugal, Filipins, etc and the age of the people was so different too, since a mother of children until a rich and cool Japanesee who knows everything (I dont know why she was in the class, maybe she was boring expending money all the time, je,je)
At the end of the course we went to a concert to celebrate it all toguether and it was amazing because it was really like a family a very good experience nowadays we keep in touch althouht it was several years ago.
What I prefer of traveling is to know new people you can learn a lot and enjoy as well.
