From the airport I took the metro to Madrid proper. Pretty simple layout, I love cities where the metro is extensive and useful My hostel – Las Musas Residence – is centrally located, very near the “Porta del Sol” (which is the center of Madrid).

Pretty nice area – no more Chinatown around me (like it happened in Rome).  The hostel seems nice, can’t wait to meet the roomies. Now I will go to find  something to gobble. Why not start the evening with some tapas?

Visit often as soon I will post new stuff, right as it happens!

Madrid metro cow

Airport metro station

Tirso de Molina metro

Street view with the hostel

My room

The lovely living room - sofas, huge tv, free WIFI

Ola a todos! As the title implies, I just arrived in Madrid, and because I needed to do a bit of research about what to see today / early tomorrow I decided to also post some bits about today.

I woke at the ungodly hour 6am, in order to prepare the baggage. Of course that last night, instead of resting and putting things in order I went with 2 lovely friends (they know who they are!) to a cafe and then to a Chinese restaurant. So early morning I was very sleepy, and obviously I forgot some things at home.

To cut a longer story short, I awaited a lot of time in Otopeni airport, dozing about 1 hour.

The plane was pretty colorful and nice – it even had a soft background music! Of course, some security guy had to point to me that I’m not supposed to take pictures in an airport. Ha!

Otopeni airport mall

Orange Easyjet plane

In-flight literature