Free Museums on Sundays in Madrid

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 […]

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April 13th, 2005 | 1 Comment

One Year Anniversary of Madrid Bombings

A moment of silence for the victims of 11-M.

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March 11th, 2005 | No Comments

Ultimate Frisbee in Madrid

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

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February 6th, 2005 | No Comments

Free Spanish Classes in Madrid

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 […]

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January 30th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Best Spanglish Ever

A photo from a friend of mine. I found it amusing.

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December 6th, 2004 | No Comments

International Grocery Stores in Madrid

Alex Selim is our guest essayist. He’s a close friend of mine, and a friend of the Internaitonal community here in Madrid. Alex recently relocated to San Franscico, but apparently that isn’t keeping him from writing about Madrid. He had one more article up his sleeve, and here we have it! Enjoy.
Bring up the topic […]

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November 11th, 2004 | No Comments

Madrid Blogs in English

What is a blog?
Here’s one person’s opinion.
Can you have your own blog?
Yes! They’re free. Go here.
What inspired kellycrull.com from the beginning was the experience of moving to a new city as an outsider, an extranjero. I remember April and I had just arrived, and before we got busy with our […]

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October 14th, 2004 | No Comments

Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid


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October 13th, 2004 | No Comments

Board Games at El Cafe de Manuela

One thing you probably didn’t find room for in your suitcase when you moved to Madrid was your favorite board game. And unless you have plans of hosting a weekly game night in your piso, a better solution might be to spend a few hours at El Cafe de Manuela at c/San Vincente Ferrer, 29.
You’ll […]

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October 3rd, 2004 | No Comments

Day Hike from Madrid, Start to Finish

For those of us who would love to take a day over the weekend to go for a hike in the mountains, but would rather not have to bother with looking up train departure times or staring cross-eyed at page 483-IV of the Handbook issued by the National Institute of Geography in Spain, or even […]

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September 14th, 2004 | 3 Comments