After that a normal 2 days business trip, turned out to became, due to certain political reasons i do not really grasp, a 6 days trip, here i am, landed in Madrid...

The first 2 days went as expected, working with the client, without being able to do actually much, and getting a bit bored, but eating really good :p

I had also to get all supplies for surviving these 6 days, including clothing, shaving stuff, etc. and i was also trying to save as much mobile's battery as possible and regreting not having taking my photo camera with. Later, as you can see, i realised that my mobile could also take pictures, so i did not care any more about my mobile's battery taking all the pictures i could :D, now i just hope to survive without mobile :p

Eventually the weekend arrived and so my first true chance to see something of Madrid, and i was really lucky that FJ offered himself to show me the down-town on friday evening. Thanks to him, i learned in just one evening much more about Madrid than i would have never learned by my own.

We started at the Puerta del Sol (Sun's Gate and not Square), with it statue of extincts bear and tree, the km0 sign, a modern subway entrance and the old neón ad of Tio Pepé, then we passed by the Opera with open-air screencasts, to arrive to the King's Palace with its great and large gardens, and vast the ancient summer cottage area reaching to the horizon, now hosting the Zoo Park and more.

Then we passed by the former town-hall with its prison tower, to finally get to the Mercado de San Miguel to eat the best olives and ham i have never eating before. And on the way back we got to the Plaza Mayor, ancient place for all kind of public acts, and we walked though the streets Cava Baja and Cava Alta, were you can find that kind of restaurants frecuented by the king.

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