{"id":241,"date":"2025-05-12T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fionap.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:36:04","slug":"madrid-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fionap.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Madrid, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re finally in Madrid, Spain! Took us a whole day of travel, we left Seattle at 7am on Saturday and arrived on Sunday 7am. But the hotel didn&#8217;t have our rooms ready when we arrived, so we had to wait until 1pm to check in. I totally fell asleep on the lobby sofa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an exhausting day of travel, we arrived at the hotel at 8am. Tried to find things to walk around or eat, but NOTHING was open! I&#8217;m so not use to a city not having anything open until 11am\/noon. After we finally got checked in, we took a nap until 7pm. Then met up with everyone and had dinner. We ate around 8pm, apparently that&#8217;s considered &#8220;early&#8221; by Spain standards. We were walking around our hotels area and happened upon this place and just decided to eat there. No googling, didn&#8217;t read any reviews, just &#8220;let&#8217;s eat here!&#8221;. Loved that! 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What a treat it was. Their manchego cheese was also really good. Everything we ate was delicious. I especially loved the grilled octopus. The char, and the salt the sprinkled on top was <em>perfecto<\/em>. Their version of calamari wasn&#8217;t fried, I think it was grilled with garlic butter. It was so so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dinner was fun, we sat at the tables on the sidewalk, in true European fashion. Got to know wzrd&#8217;s co-worker PJ a little bit better. I didn&#8217;t have a high opinion of him before, but he turned out to be a nice guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first I thought I had my Royal Palace of Madrid tour tickets today, but found out it was tomorrow. What a relief. I&#8217;m so tired right now lol. Wzrd is off to work right now, and I think my plan today is to go wander and shopping around Gran Via. I&#8217;m a bit intimidated to walk around by myself, so hopefully I&#8217;ll make it out. 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