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Madrid Tours with MadridMan
Tour Madrid with MadridMan! MadridMan®, an American expatriate and Spanish resident, offers 2 to 2.5-hour walking tours of Old Madrid via MadridTours.com. Discover the hidden corners of Madrid and learn of Spain’s capital city’s colorful and often bloody past. We’ll … Continue reading
Posted in About Spain, Travel
Tagged book Madrid Tours, culture, customs, excursion, history, Madrid, Madrid Tours, MadridMan, Old Town, Plazas, Tour Madrid, tours, Tours of Madrid, walking tour
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15 Year Anniversary for MadridMan.com
Today, 20 July 2012, is MadridMan.com‘s 15-Year Anniversary. MadridMan.com is now a maturing teenager, but still has a lot of growing up to do. JUST WAIT until he gets into his 20s! The domain name was registered on this date … Continue reading
BIG Price Raise in Madrid Public Transportation
Starting 1 May 2012, end-users of Madrid’s Public Transportation System will feel the sting of the sharpest price raises in 10-years. This raise takes place at the same time as the prices of gasoline, electricity and natural gas go up … Continue reading
Posted in Money, Travel
Tagged airport bus, autobus, budget, bus, cheap, city, economical, expensive, Madrid, metro, price, public, public transportation, raise, shuttle, subsidized, transportation
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Rick Steves Spain 2012 Recommends MadridMan
Imagine my thrill last November in a Columbus, Ohio Barnes & Noble bookstore during my annual USA visit, leafing through the “Rick Steves’ Spain 2012” book which recommended MadridMan.com!! He wrote: “Helpful Website: MadridMan.com is run with passion by American [MadridMan] … Continue reading
Posted in About Spain, General, Travel
Tagged book, Europe, Europe Through The Back Door, Madrid, MadridMan, recommendation, Rick Steves, Spain, travel, travel book
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Last Day of Summer in Spain 2011
Today is it, August 31st, the last day of Summer for Spaniards. For most students, summer lasts until school starts. But for adults it lasts until you have to go back to work – and in the case of Spaniards, … Continue reading
New Madrid Tourist Bus – No More Madrid Vision
The 10-year old hop-on hop-off bus operated by “Madrid Vision” has become a horse of different color. Actually, it’s the same color but with a big metal sign covering the original name. As of today, 31 January 2011, the city … Continue reading
Posted in Money, Travel
Tagged bus turistico, EMT, hop on hop off, Julia Travel, Madrid, Madrid tourist bus, Madrid Vision, sight seeing, tourist bus, transportation, Trapsa, Trapsatur
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Spanish Airports Closed for Strike
Wow. This is nearly unprecedented. There’s goes the holiday, folks. Spain is in TOTAL Travel Chaos in Spain!!! Spanish air traffic controllers have called a massive UNscheduled strike, a simultaneous walk-out, according to AENA, for not only today Friday but … Continue reading
Posted in Money, Travel
Tagged Air Traffic Controllers, airport, Airport strike, cancelations, huelga, negotiation, strike, travel, workers
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Granada: Hotel Palacio Mariana Pineda review
Over the “Puente del Pilar” (mid-October 2010) I spent two nights at the 4-star Hotel Palacio Mariana Pineda in Granada, Spain. I had tried first booking the adjacent Hotel Casa del Capitel Nazari but got bumped-up to the Hotel Palacio … Continue reading
Europe Travel Alert
Since I’m on Madrid’s US Embassy‘s mailing list they send me these alerts every so often but I don’t usually pay much attention. Nothing has ever happened after receiving the travel alerts. Today’s alert regards …”the potential for terrorist attacks … Continue reading
Posted in About Spain, Travel
Tagged airport, al-Qa'ida, alert, attack, delay, European travel, international, Madrid, Madrid train bombing, Spain, terrorist, terrorist attack, threat, tourism, travel, travel alert, U.S. Embassy
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Lack of European Travel from Spain
There’s a part of me which wonders WHY I’ve been here in Spain for 4 years and I’ve STILL not traveled throughout Europe. What the heck am I waiting for?? Really, when I moved here I was sure I’d have … Continue reading
Madrid Travelthink 2009 Conference
On Friday, 11 December 2009, I attended the day-long Madrid Travelthink 2009 conference in one of the upstairs theater rooms at the Reina Sofia Museum, across from Madrid’s Atocha train station. The new addition to old museum is very nice, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, internet, Madrid, Madrid Travelthink, promote, promotion, Reina Sofia, Social Media, tourism conference, travel conference, Travelthink
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Last Day of July in Spain
Talk about your “FLUFF” topics!! Today’s Friday – and the last day in July. So technically, we’re about midway through the summer holiday season. What does that mean? It means that half of the Spanish population is returning home from … Continue reading
Posted in About Spain, Travel
Tagged gridlock, july vacation, Spain summer travel, spain travel, summer holiday, summer vacation, traffic
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Summer Vacation Exodus Begins in Spain
Although it’s already July 3rd, many workers finished out the week to start vacations this Friday afternoon. This fact is verified by 32 kilometers of traffic jams on all of Madrid’s (and in nearly all of Spain’s cities) out-going highways … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged beach, coast, heat, hot, Madrid, Spain, summer, summer holiday, summer vacation, traffic, traffic jams, village, village life
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Grand Opening: New Cercanias Station in Puerta del Sol
Today, on its first day of operation, I made my maiden-visit to the brand-new Cercanías station in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol. The controversial entryway is in the shape, it is said, of a “Glass Fish” or “Pez de Cristal“, and … Continue reading
Posted in General, Travel
Tagged cercanias, estacion de cercanias, nueva estacion, pez, Pez de Cristal, Puerta del Sol, sol, train station
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