Guest contributor to kellycrull.com is Kelly Wills, a good friend of mine living in Madrid and this year celebrating her first Christmas in Spain. Besides having a great name, and possibly having watched A Charlie Brown Christmas a few too many times, she brings us this Christmas tale straight from Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
I bought […]
If you’ve been to Retiro Park in Madrid, particularly on a Sunday afternoon, you may have been too busy watching a puppet show, splashing around in a rowboat, or snapping photos of your little ones with Mickey Mouse to notice the park’s most obscure attraction.
However, had you walked along the lake on Salón del Estanque […]
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A guy living in Barcelona emailed me recently and asked for advice on where to rent an apartment (or a piso) in Madrid. I remember three years ago when April and I first moved to Spain and were walking the streets of Madrid looking for an apartment. We were hopeless—we could barely […]
Our guest contributor is Mark Edwards, chair of the Sociology Department at Oregon State University. But more than being just a stodgy professor, he’s also a good friend of mine. He’s thoughtful, and considering sociologists are about as rare as Vancouver Island Marmots, he offers us his unique perspective on one of Madrid’s oldest neighborhoods, […]
Read more »Some friends of mine, Ryan and Gabriela Opaz, posted this photo on their website a few days ago, and I had to have it. I read the post that went with the photo and found out this sculpture is actually in Madrid.
The sculpture, a collaborative work by Andrés Casillas and Margarita GarcÃa of Mexico, is […]
A group of friends from the popular online Madrid message board spaintalk.multimadrid.org get together Sundays from 4:30 to 7:00 in Retiro Park to play volleyball. People of all skill levels are welcome to join and play or just have fun socializing on the sidelines. As a rough schedule, the group plays from May until August […]
Read more »Save your euros for another day. Sundays are free in Madrid. Here’s an alphabetical list of museums, monuments, and art exhibitions across the city, all free on Sundays.
To help make your plans for this Sunday a little easier, here’s a metro map, a street finder, and a Spanish / English dictionary. Enjoy!
Museums & Monuments
Museo […]
A group of ultimate frisbee players who call themselves “Los Quijotes” meet Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons to play. Specifics about time and place (including maps) can be found at their web site:
http://losquijotes.webcindario.com/index.htm
The Community of Madrid offers Spanish classes free of charge at many of the Centers for Adult Education in the area. Here is a rough guide to enrolling yourself in one of these classes.
A few pointers before we begin:
• First, the reason I’m writing this guide is because enrolling in these classes can be both […]
