The day trips to Toledo, Avila or Segovia should be great, although I decided to stay in the city during my second stopover there, primarily because of the miserable rain and wind (the weather during my first stopover there was glorious). I went to an Irish pub to watch the Arsenal vs Manchester United Premiership game - an interesting experience.
The Atocha rail station, near which the bomb exploded, looks like a rainforest (photos 3 & 4). It was just over a week after the bombing when I made my first stopover in Madrid. Photos 5 & 6 show how Madrid remembered the victims (outside the Atocha station and near Puerta del Sol, the city centre).
I really like the "chocolate con churros" drink. Actually, the chocolate is not for drinking but serves as a dipping sauce for the flour sticks (photo 7).
