{"id":109,"date":"2015-07-14T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.wordpress.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-07-14T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:24:00","slug":"madrid-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.org\/everythingelse\/2015\/07\/14\/madrid-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Puerta<\/a>
Puerta de Toledo<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nI have not had time until now to sit down and post some of the pictures I’ve been taking. \u00a0Don’t believe I took as many in the many many years I lived here as I have in the past few days, chronicling as I have each encounter with old memories.
\n
\"Contemplating<\/a>
Contemplating my new shoes on my way to Raquel’s house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nI am staying with an old friend, in La Latina, just above Puerta de Toledo (right), off calle Toledo. \u00a0Very touristy zone, right next to El Rastro<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(wow it even has its own webpage now!), but close to just about everything. \u00a0Over the years I’ve stayed with Raquel all over Madrid, starting with my Junior Year Abroad, when we shared a flat on Plaza de Pe\u00f1uelas, not too far from where she lives now. \u00a0Other houses? \u00a0One in Calle Barquillo (Banco de Espa\u00f1a), and one in Lavapi\u00e9s (stayed there during my last visit to Spain, in 2011… it had been\u00a0four<\/strong> years!)
\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking into La Plaza Mayor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Madrid is constantly in the process of having a face-lift, somewhere. \u00a0Every time I come, la Plaza Mayor<\/a> seems to be\u00a0en obras.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ParqueThe biggest change with which I was previously unfamiliar\u00a0is the new Parque Madrid Rio<\/a> they’ve placed–at great expense–in Arganzuela, burying the nightmare M-30 in tunnels and turning the area into a pleasing park with slides, bike\/running trails, water areas, etc.
\nIt is certainly very pretty.
\n

\"The<\/a>
The Puente Monumental de Arganzuela was designed by Dominique Perrault<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWalking north from Raquel’s house on calle Toledo toward’s la Plaza Mayor you will pass by the Mercado de la Cebada<\/a>.
\n
\"plaza<\/a>
Plaza de la Cebada<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe back of the market has been turned into a colorful recreation area.
\nOn the other side, there is an excellent restaurant-bar, Taberna la Buha. \u00a0We had the best tortilla con cebolla carmelizada y queso de cabra<\/em> there last night.
\nMore pictures taken on the way from La Latina to Gran Via:
\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking out of the Plaza Mayor<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"from<\/a>
from calle Mayor to Arenal<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nLa Calle del Arenal probably has a significant place in a lot of people’s memories; it certainly does in mine. One night I walked from Joy (a disco, pictured below) to my then-house in Dehesa de la Villa. It’s a LONG way \ud83d\ude09
\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking east towards Puerta del Sol and Joy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking west down la calle del Arenal towards the Teatro Real<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nOn the other side of the Teatro Real lies the Plaza de Oriente<\/em>. The metro stop is “Opera” and of course operas are produced in the Teatro Real<\/a>, which is quite fancy inside. It’s well worth the price of admission just to see the amazing visual show<\/em> that happens in an opera, with the stage changing in marvelous ways.
\nAcross the plaza from the Royal Theatre lies the\u00a0Palacio Real <\/a>\u00a0<\/em>or Royal Palace
\n
\"Teatro<\/a>
Teatro Real<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"Plaza<\/a>
Plaza de Oriente with Palacio Real in background<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSome final thoughts from someone who mustn’t like milk (drawn on a wall along calle Fuencarral I believe):
\n
\"(Consumption<\/a>
(Consumption of milk is a cover for exploitation, suffering, and death!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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