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- I've been traveling the world for the past
10 years and Madrid is one of those places
that I keep coming back to.
In fact, I've just moved from London to Madrid.
This is a beautiful city and I resonate with
so many things in Madrid because I'm also
a native Spanish speaker,
but I've made so many mistakes over the years,
Today in this video I just want to share with you
10 things you should not do in Madrid,
but before I actually need a coffee,
so let's go together and will start sharing
all that stuff over there.
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- Okay this is leading to my first tip
in this breakfast place.
#10 Don't have eggs for breakfast.
I repeat it, don't have eggs for breakfast.
People here have "tosta" (toast)
"con tomate y aceite de oliva"
which is a tomato toast and olive oil.
This is a classic here.
If we're going to have a coffee and you say coffee,
it will come by default with milk.
You need to say "cafe solo",
If you want just a black coffee,
quite important,
So don't have eggs for breakfast,
make sure you know how to order your coffee,
#9 Don't rush,
people here walk slow and that's okay.
Just moved from London and it's been eight to
nine years living there.
And Kristina walks like crazy so fast.
- London made a major impact on my behavior.
I realized that every minute counts and
you want it or not you get into this rush mode,
like subconsciously I think.
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And I think even though here there's a lot of
traffic, people drive,
people walk slow and that's okay.
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#8 Don't take taxis.
Madrid is very small,
So everything's like walking distance.
And if you keep taking taxis you're gonna miss
the best places in here in Madrid.
So that's my recommendation,
It's okay, You know, sometimes when whatever,
like you are too far away from one particular place
or you're in a rush,
but in general don't take taxis.
This is a great place to walk.
And now that we are in plaza Mayor this is
leading me to my next tip,
#7 Don't eat here.
Well, you can eat here.
It's not bad,
I've eaten here in the past,
but I feel it's overpriced and quality
is not probably in line with the price here.
It's very touristy you can get some nice pictures,
but my recommendation is,
if you really want to have lunch or have dinner,
don't start with this place,
Or at least come once if you want as a starting
point,
but don't take this as the best place to eat in
the city because it's not.
- So you can see we are leaving Plaza Mayor now.
we're literally in San Miguel Market now
#6 Don't lose your mind in Mercado De San Miguel
This is a great market,
Don't get me wrong I love it,
I love this tortilla here.
And it's a little bit overpriced.
This is probably a starting point.
This should not be the end place.
Have a tortilla here if you want.
And there's plenty of other markets in Madrid
also really, really good.
This one is probably a little bit more expensive
just because there's more tourists.
This reminds me a lot of Borough Market
borough market in London is great as well.
There's a lot of things to do,
but I don't know if it's everything authentic.
I think it's just overpriced because of the area
that you are,
which is close to London bridge and here,
probably because you're close to plaza Mayor
you end up paying a premium,
and they know that there's a lot
of tourists here because you're in central.
So don't lose your mind,
Great food I'm not too sure if its the place
to spend all your money or to be all day.
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There's a protest now going on here because
apparently the army people,
they don't earn enough whereas the police,
make double the money... peaceful protest.
But if you guys are going to be walking a bit,
it's not something uncommon.
1:00 PM, we can't eat lunch yet,
because lunch here is at 2:00 PM.
And that's the next don't,
#5 Don't eat lunch before 2:00 PM.
One theory is obviously the non theory about the
Mediterranean countries and more sun and laid
back attitude and so on,
We all know that.
but the second theory is Spain has been the wrong
time zone for the last 70 years at least,
if you have a look at the map,
you can see that Spain is at the same longitude
as the UK, Morocco and Portugal,
And that means GMT,
Whereas here we are in the CET time zone,
apparently Franco in 1940,
he changed the time,
he moved the clock for one hour and people having
lunch at 1 pm continued to have lunch at 2 pm.
Obviously, you can have lunch before,
but not something so common for Madrileños.
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One of my very first trips to Madrid.
People were saying to me, oh yeah,
you need to go to El Museo Del Prado. It's amazing.
It has a lot of paintings, over 8,000...
It survived to so many wars over 700
sculptures... Oh my gosh! You need to go!
Maybe if it's your first time and you are not
into art just... #4 Don't do it.
You're going to be paying 15 euros.
If it's not your thing you're not gonna enjoy it.
I mean, don't get me wrong, great place to come.
But if you only have a weekend and you don't
wanna be indoors, just don't do it, right?
Or come after 6:00 PM and it's going to
be free.
And this is leading to my next point,
RETIRO PARK
#3 Don't skip this park.
Locals come here for run, for jogging, boxing, yoga
anything really, Madrileños love this park
And it's the most iconic park in Madrid.
I don't know how you feel about it.
- It's not only for running or jogging or
something like that,
you can just come here to relax because you
cannot isolate yourself from the whole city.
And it's very peaceful here.
- If you know the spots,
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but sometimes it can be very crowded as well.
Me I'm trying to come for a run probably
three times per week these days,
you just need to know when to come,
because can be also very busy and you might not
enjoy it so much,
but you're right,
It can be also peaceful if you know when to come.
So we are in Santiago Bernabeu area,
here we have Real Madrid stadium.
We're gonna go now,
it's under development and they're not playing
for awhile here,
This is leading to my next tip.
#2 Don't ignore football,
Everyone loves football here.
And there's two big teams in Madrid,
Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid.
And so behind me, we're in Santiago Bernabeu,
Real Madrid stadium,
It's under development,
So there's not a lot we can do right now
in most of the bars,
It's not uncommon to watch football.
If you come and leave here,
probably you will be talking about football at
work as well on Mondays after the usual La Liga,
and on Thursday after Champions League.
So Real Madrid fan or Atletico Madrid fan,
go and pick.
It's actually one more tip I wanna give you,
but for that,
we need to wait for a couple of hours.
All right, guys,
I'm actually very hungry and this is leading to
to my next point.
#1 Don't have dinner before 9:00 PM in Madrid.
I mean you can,
but if you want to be Madrileño... then from
9:00 PM, I'd probably say.
- It's very easy to adjust here in Madrid,
Because I think from day one,
we started to go to bed late,
and woke up late as well,
So I think we got it really fast.
I actually don't mind because I don't know
You just feel like Madrileño very fastQ
- Today, early in the morning I told you don't
have eggs for breakfast,
for dinner It's common to have eggs here,
So for example, now I'm having "huevos rotos"
just fried eggs with black truffle... no eggs for
breakfast but,
you're allowed to have eggs for dinner.
This is a beautiful city.
And I resonate with so many things here.
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The common thing here is Tomato...
So bottom line
So bottom line? So bottom line,
That's all from me,
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