I want to build the ultimate pro and con list about Madrid compared with England, partly as a guide and partly just so I can have a bit of a moan, so I'll add things as and when they occur to me and compile them all at the end of the year, but heres a starter
Like: that people spend a good part of their lives standing or sitting on the street
Dislike: that they simply will not get out of your way when your trying to get past
Like: chocolate con churros
Dislike: that half-decent coffee is exceedingly hard to come by
We went out for Halloween last night, with our hitchiking guests (on a Madrid timescale: leaving the house at 1am) and wondered up to Sol dressed as burgulars, doing comically sneaky walks and hiding behind lamposts when people walked past. Fancy dress was thoroughly on show, ranging from the extremely detailed to the downright bizarre! After a few drinks at a mainly English bar, we ventured into a tile-fronted bar pumping music out that turned out to be the most Spanish place I've been in yet, with full on Flamenco music, complete with clapping and stamping on the dancefloor and pictures of bullfighters covering the walls. Great fun when you get into it!
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