Work & walk in Madrid

Project work gives plenty of opportunity to travel, BUT: most of the time you don't get to choose the destination and working time is so long that you hardly have any time left for afterwork pleasures.

What makes it even more complicated in the world of logistics is that most of our facilities and offices are located in industrial areas, where it's not much to see - apart from cases, labels, walkie-riders and trucks ... which are of course all veeery interesting, but up to a certain limit ;-)) I was lucky enough this time to have an implementation project in Madrid, just when the summer kicked in (well, it was a pretty challenging one, but at least at the right location) so I took the weekend-work as an opportunity to visit Madrid together with Zoli, flying after me for couple of days... and tried to finish up work early enough to have some time left for sightseeing.

Then guess, what...? by the time we left the hotel, the weather got cold and rainy, so we started to look around for places to hide us from the bad weather, which wasn't too difficult in Madrid: one tapas bar next to each other, great atmposhere everywhere, people having fun on Saturday evening
- by drinking a Sangraia at 'the Mercato':

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- or enjoying a Flamenco evening show: 

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... like we did. Both of them.

Next day it was time to do some real sightseeing in the beautiful sunshine. We started  off at Plaza de Toros with a tour at the Madrid's famous bull fighting stadium:

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... continuing our walk through the Plaza de Cibeles (where probably the soccer fans took their bath yesterday after beating the Germans out from the WC final)

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... and through the 'Parque del Retiro', a huge and beautifully maintained park in the heart of the city, with a lot of green grass and playing areas, lake with rental boats, vendors selling drinks, snacks, balloon swords and ice cream.

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This park is definitely one of the not-to-miss attractions of the city, besides the popular city sights like the Palacio Real or Plaza Mayor.

Madrid is a great place to visit with beautiful buildings & parks, great food and drinks and charming atmosphere. It is the type of place where you can really enjoy life and well worthwhile visiting.
You can find below our entire photo album on Madrid.

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