Trips for Real Jardín Botánico

December 8, 2005: We arrive in Madrid (at the Chamartin station) right around 0830...on a Thursday...which also happens to be a major holiday (a fact we will not completely figure out for about a day. Thanks for the help Lonely Planet. You too, F …

Prologue: When I planned for my trip, I got a lot of useful information from trip blogs that I found on the Internet. Hence, I choose to write a detailed journal as a way to give back to the community. I envision this journal to be an additional …

Had a pretty uneventful series of travel legs out of Houston. The flying time from Newark to Madrid (just under 7 hours) seems too short for an overnight flight now, after doing many Houston-Tokyo trips in the last couple of years, where flights …

We would arrive at around 11am. should take a taxi down to the hotel, which is on Diagnol and fairly close to Puerta de Sol, which we would make as our first stop. We follow the walk suggested by Rick Stevens, starting off rom Puerta de Sol …

Trip to Madrid, Spain and Lisbon, Portugal

A work in progress