Tour around Madrid

Today we took a tourist bus tour around Madrid to see some of the more interesting areas of the city.
It was a double decker bus with an open roof and stopped at all the significant places.
It is hard to understand just how fanatical the Spanish are about their soccer team Real Madrid but when you visit the stadium you get an idea. It can seat 80k spectators an the TV rights run into the billions.
There are also many varied sculptures around the city which is common in most large cities of the world however Madrid is on the dirty side with lots of cigarette butts on the pavement and it’s share of homelessness as well.

We discovered a great little cafe called Scarlett who did great coffee in a similar style to Melbourne which was a god send.
The tapas cafes around the city are great to eat at with each offering subtle variations of menus.Read more