Our friends Andy and Casi had a wine tasting at their apartment a while back. It was an authentic experience with people scribbling down ratings on note cards and a few experts sharing their knowledge of the wines being judged. The only catch was every wine had been purchased in Madrid for 3 euros or […]
Read more »I received a comment from a reader today who recently moved to CĂłrdoba, Spain from the US, couldn’t find peanut butter (her comfort food), and was wondering if I could help her.
So, in case there are any other Americans out there are craving a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich in Spain, I thought I would […]
At least 153 of the 172 passengers died in a plane crash in Madrid yesterday. My sympathies to those who were affected by this tragedy.
It’s not difficult to imagine myself in the place of these passengers. I fly out of the Madrid airport often and use the same airline. I’m especially thankful today for the […]
Guest contributor to kellycrull.com is Kelly Wills, a good friend of mine living in Madrid and this year celebrating her first Christmas in Spain. Besides having a great name, and possibly having watched A Charlie Brown Christmas a few too many times, she brings us this Christmas tale straight from Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
I bought […]
If you’ve been to Retiro Park in Madrid, particularly on a Sunday afternoon, you may have been too busy watching a puppet show, splashing around in a rowboat, or snapping photos of your little ones with Mickey Mouse to notice the park’s most obscure attraction.
However, had you walked along the lake on SalĂłn del Estanque […]
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A guy living in Barcelona emailed me recently and asked for advice on where to rent an apartment (or a piso) in Madrid. I remember three years ago when April and I first moved to Spain and were walking the streets of Madrid looking for an apartment. We were hopeless—we could barely […]
Our guest contributor is Mark Edwards, chair of the Sociology Department at Oregon State University. But more than being just a stodgy professor, he’s also a good friend of mine. He’s thoughtful, and considering sociologists are about as rare as Vancouver Island Marmots, he offers us his unique perspective on one of Madrid’s oldest neighborhoods, […]
Read more »Some friends of mine, Ryan and Gabriela Opaz, posted this photo on their website a few days ago, and I had to have it. I read the post that went with the photo and found out this sculpture is actually in Madrid.
The sculpture, a collaborative work by AndrĂ©s Casillas and Margarita GarcĂa of Mexico, is […]
A group of friends from the popular online Madrid message board spaintalk.multimadrid.org get together Sundays from 4:30 to 7:00 in Retiro Park to play volleyball. People of all skill levels are welcome to join and play or just have fun socializing on the sidelines. As a rough schedule, the group plays from May until August […]
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