La Historia de Madrid

5/22 - 5/23

I am accumulating tons of photos, so I am putting all of them on my Flickr, so feel free to browse those as I will only be selecting a handful of my favorites for the blog!

5/22
We went to a club on Wednesday night.  I can't remember the name of it but it was definitely promoted for international students.  All the songs they played were American songs too!  I wasn't that surprised I was just hoping to hear some popular Spanish music.  Hoping that the next club we go will be more authentic to Madrid.  We didn't go out until about 12:30am and didn't come home until ~4am.  People here go out very late and even stay out until 6 or 7 in the morning (which is supposedly also because they want to catch the early Metro since they close around 2am).

5/23
Class from 9am-11am and then a very long siesta!  Later we had an optional Historical Tour of Madrid that started at 6pm.  We were about 15 minutes late and had to take the Metro to a place we had not been before in Spain and somehow ended up finding the group!  We were pretty much set on just missing the Tour and wandering around ourselves.  It worked out though, and it was so worth it!  Here are some photos:

Multi-million dollar apartments overlooking el Plazo Mayor de Madrid and the Palacio Real

El Plazo Mayor

One of the many colorful and beautiful apartment buildings

Plazo Mayor landscape

Plaza de la Cruz Verde - "Plaza of the Green Cross"

Lindsay and Bria in la Jardin del Principe Anglona

Guinness World Records:  The Oldest Restaurant in the World 

Oldest Restaurant in the World

Madrileños have a saying: "Pasa o no se casa"

Basically,"Walk Calle de la Pasa or don't be married"