Trips for Mercat de la Boquería

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 …

Our trip started out at the Philadelphia International Airport. Our flight was scheduled to take off at 6:55 PM. We arrived at the airport at 4:10 to ensure plenty of time. Before we left, I grabbed one last taste of home, stopping at a Soft …

Hello to everyone that might be checking out the page to see what the hell im up to while im over here. I just wanted to write down some quick thoughts, and give some 411 on things we are up to. I am not sure how my internet access will be …

Got a bit of a late start today - 10 AM (1 AM PST) on wait that would be early for us :) Today was a walking day - we walked up Via Laietana to St. Jaume I and took the left into Barri Gotic. We took a little side walk to look at the old roman …

People have told me about domestic flights within Spain is cheap, but I was still in for a shock when I checked prices today. First of all, there appears to be 4 airlines that serve domestics flights within Spain (at least between Barcelona …

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 …

Barcelona/Granada/Ronda/Madrid

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 …