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It is twenty to ten on Calle Bailén and the line already bends around the corner of the Almudena Cathedral. There are people holding coffee, a family sharing a bottle of water, and a young man checking his phone to see whether tickets can be bought from where he is standing. You walk past them, […]

You have been standing in front of Las Meninas for four minutes and, for the first time on this trip, you are in no hurry at all. You know who every person in that room is, why Velázquez painted himself into it, and what they are all actually looking at. A couple stops beside you for ten […]

Marta booked four days in Madrid at the end of November and, a week before flying, the forecast put a rain icon on three of them. She reacted by buying the Paseo del Arte pass all at once and stacking the Prado, the Reina Sofía and the Thyssen into the same afternoon, so the “museum […]

It is Saturday, quarter past nine, and you are standing outside the hotel with two children: a six-year-old who has already asked twice where the Tooth Fairy Mouse lives, and a three-year-old in the stroller who has not yet decided whether he is going to cooperate today. You have a whole day in Madrid ahead […]

Ask what a tour guide costs in Madrid and you get answers ranging from “ten euros” to “seven hundred”, which sounds like nobody knows. They all do. They are simply quoting different things: a tip at the end of a free walking tour, a seat on a scheduled group tour, or a licensed guide working […]