Santiago to Madrid and being a tourist in Madrid – with an upgrade on the flight home<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the show we sat next to a couple from the USA.\u00a0 They visit Madrid every few years and spoke Spanish.\u00a0 After the show we all went to this cafe which truly had wonderful tapas.\u00a0 Try the tiny shrimp in olive oil!\u00a0 The house specialty was pigs ears, but I liked the shrimp better.<\/p>\n
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The tiny shrimp tapas were fabulous!<\/p><\/div>\n
We ate at many different restaurants and always enjoyed both the food and hospitality.\u00a0 Madrid is cafe society!<\/p>\n
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A test. 4 girls and one guy. Which girl is with the guy?<\/p><\/div>\n
We went to El Rastro, the big Sunday open air market.<\/p>\n
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We thought Madrid would be a good place to get real Cuba Cigars.<\/p>\n
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One afternoon at the Prado Museum isn’t enough to really immerse yourself in the beauty of the paintings hanging there!\u00a0 Some of the paintings viewed had been on my ‘list’ since my early college ‘Art History’ class.<\/p>\n
The Temple of Debod was a particularly stunning place to visit at sunset.<\/p>\n
RETURN HOME and upgraded to Business Class<\/p>\n
We checked out of the flat and made it to the airport in plenty of time to catch our flight to Heathrow where we could connect to return home.<\/p>\n
After arriving in Heathrow, with a 90 minute connection to our flight home, problems arose.\u00a0 British Airways has installed a new computer system two days earlier and apparently our reservations were deleted.\u00a0 NOT TO WORRY!\u00a0 Well to worry about making the flight I guess.\u00a0 When we went through passport security (not luggage security), at Heathrow, they could not match up our name, tickets, reservations numbers, passport numbers and dates of birth correctly.\u00a0 So our reservations had been deleted or at least partially deleted – we never were told exactly what the problem was.\u00a0 But they would not let us go through Passport Security and on the Luggage Security. \u00a0 I had printed copies of the tickets purchase, and printouts of the flight check-in confirmations done the day before.\u00a0 Also I had our boarding passes when passing through London on the way to Spain weeks earlier as well as the confirmation and boarding passes from the Iberia flight we had arrived on a few minutes earlier.\u00a0 There wasn’t a question about having a ticket, or having made a reservation and confirmed it.\u00a0 But we had to be escalated up two management levels to find someone who could get this resolved.\u00a0 And since this was a new system, passport security spent so much time trying to figure out how to get it right, that our seats were long gone.<\/p>\n
The result – we were given Business Class seats!<\/p>\n
That made the 11 hour flight home much more comfortable and was a really sweet way to end the trip.<\/p>\n
I would do this all again – from Ourense (or A Gudina) to Muxia.\u00a0 The Spanish people were so open and hospitable, the country was so pretty, the food and wine were so tasteful and satisfying!<\/p>\n
I loved it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Santiago to Madrid and being a tourist in Madrid – with an upgrade on the flight home Rather than post for each day, this will be a post about the different things we saw in Madrid. On the way to Ourense we spent about 45 min in Madrid rushing to the train station, and saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":207,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Tl76-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions\/430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwmarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}