Madrid May 19-21 2010

A very easy flight from Bristol landed me in Madrid on 19th got to Hostal around 10 only to find that the single from that I had booked was unavailable and I would have to stay in a double with en suite shower for the same price....oh well if you insist! Spanish hopspitality is already apparent! Watched the final of the Spanish Cup on weds night before awaking to find heat blessed heat and Sun!






Sent the morning checking out a few tourist sights and then headed to the modern art gallery to get some inspiration......Very Impressive spent that evening messing around with some field recording made around the city before an early ( ish ) night

Spent the last morning in Madrid walking to the bus station to buy a ticket to the next stop of Granada. Turned out to be a bit further than my map reading skills had indicated and after a while in the hot hot heat felt a bit like a lost explorer lost in the desert, mindless repeating estacion autobus...estacion autobus.... Once in said estaction managed use my Spanish by hook or crook to buy a ticket then braved the Madrid underground system on the way back to town. Confusingly at my first stop there were platforms on both sides of train causing me to have a Geraint Evans moment when deciding quickly whether to alight on left or right hand side...

In the afternoon went to the plaza Espania to see the famous statue of my literary hero don quioxitui and his trusty sidekick sancho ( Cevrantes 16^th century version of Own and Daf) In the evening went for my first Spanish beer, not cheap at otcho euros ..oouch (oh well serves me right for getting a bottle of German Weisebeer in Spain ) Saw a jazz band doing swing numbers including i wanna be like you from the Jungle book. though the scat was nowhere near as good as Daf’s (no pun intended). Next morning Granada...