{"id":8643,"date":"2015-07-28T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:37:15","slug":"madrid-its-pretty-awesome-even-if-you-dont-see-penelope-javier-html-d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2015\/07\/28\/madrid-its-pretty-awesome-even-if-you-dont-see-penelope-javier-html-d1\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid: It’s Pretty Awesome Even If You Don’t \ufeffSee Penelope & Javier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  I first went to <\/span>Madrid<\/span>, <\/span>Spain<\/span> about a decade ago. During my study abroad year (in <\/span>Florence<\/span>), I took a whirlwind 18-hour trip to <\/span>Madrid<\/span> to visit one of my best friends from high school. All I had was a spare Saturday night in the middle of my insane solo spring break tour of Spain (it was insane because it was solo, not because I went clubbing in Barcelona because I didn’t) and so hopped over to Madrid for dinner with my friend, then sleep, and then a first-in-line sprint through the Prado. <\/span>
     This year, I visited for the second time, and luckily was able to almost triple the length of time spent in this glorious city! That is, a regular weekend. We were there for two main reasons: <\/span><\/span><\/span>to see Audra McDonald in concert<\/span><\/a> <\/span>(can’t break my 15-year streak of seeing her live every year!) and to eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant. (The latter will come in the next post.) But <\/span>Madrid<\/span> is such a fun, cosmopolitan, modern city that we barely had enough time to cover the basics. <\/span><\/span>
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   This time, we went in the middle of winter, which in <\/span>London<\/span> is blah, nothing really compared to the East Coast blizzards, and so we assumed that <\/span>Spain<\/span> of all places would be even warmer. Well. It was not. I think it was colder than our trip to northern <\/span>Sweden<\/span>. Okay it probably wasn’t but it felt like it because it felt so wrong! I mean you think <\/span>Spain<\/span>, you think Peeny Lopay in shorts and sunglasses. Oh man it was cold. Anyway, we had a short list of must-check vegan-friendly spots, museums, and churreria.  (That’s the word for a place that sells churros! We learn so much on this blog!) <\/span>
   First thing, I must confess that whenever I am in Spain (or around Spanish speaking people, or watching Episode 2 of ‘Community’), this is playing on a loop in my head:<\/div>\n
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