Hesperia madrid hotel

Just beyond the historic center, Hesperia receives its visitors with a sophisticated and long reception decorated by renowned designer Pasqua Ortega. Ornamented with materials such as limestone and light wood, the hotel provides a soothing contrast to the bustling street outside Castellana and ends in a courtyard surrounded by light restaurant La Manzana and gardens, where you can listen to music on piano and harp Live in the afternoon. The carpeted rooms, although less impressive in terms of size and decoration, have all types of facilities, including a pillow menu to ensure that guests feel as if they were at home.

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Gran hotel canarias

Plaza Canovas del Castillo, 4, Madrid, Spain

Former residence of a count, this completely restored hotel, one block from the Prado Museum, is a reasonable alternative but to luxurious five star hotels that are in this area. In the lobby and common areas can be found as a unique combination of brown leather sofa and chairs of time, but the rooms are spacious, with hand-painted ornaments canaries, brightly colored carpets from the Royal Factory of Tapestries and furniture wood. The green marble bathrooms with large mirrors and showers. The cafeteria is open to the public, is a magnet for transients.

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Tryp ambassador hotel in madrid

Cuesta Santo Domingo 5 and 7, Madrid, Spain

In an ancient street between Gran Via and the Royal Palace, the ambassador took the renovated XIX century palace of the Dukes of Granada. A magnificent front door and a charming three-story stairway reminisce aristocratic building, the rest has been transformed into stylish accommodation, but a little blank, preferred by executives. The guest rooms have spacious living rooms, mahogany furniture and floral fabrics. The restaurant greenhouse full of plants and songbirds, is especially pleasant on a cold day.

In-hotel: restaurant, bar, airport shuttle, parking (fee). AE, DC, MC, V.

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Museum of Iron – Spanish ironwork is concerned

One of the best museums in the world in terms of Spanish ironwork is concerned.

Located in the old town, the Museum of Iron is a building of 800 square meters fully integrated in the environment whose main objective is to bring the iron work of the public.

It created from the private collection of Luis Elvira, sampled over its nearly five hundred pieces, raising the blacksmith to the highest levels, when the office ceases to be to become singular artistic expression.

It presents a variety of pieces of various kinds, from kitchen utensils to jewelry and from the twelfth to the twentieth century. Our attentive visit we will understand and appreciate a range of objects that once were common use today, for the work that would make them, they would not price.

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Baltic sea cruises: sea journey

Aboard the Crystal Symphony, one of the best equipped ships in the world, embarking on a journey through the Baltic Sea. Three cities: Tallinn, St. Petersburg and Stockholm. And with the spirit of the sailors, outside conventions, schedules and routines acquired

In the distance, the bow of the Crystal Symphony gently flashes in Copenhagen harbor dock white, huge, challenging. It could be an ax standing on the still water, and awaiting the imminent festival of the engines, foam that signal when the journey is about to begin.

The vessel belongs to American shipping Crystal Cruises (which operates in Spain through a World Cruise), considered one of the most sophisticated of the wide range crucerística.

This time the adventure is traveling to the Baltic Sea. And it three cities: Tallinn (Estonia), St. Petersburg (Russia) and Stockholm (Sweden).

From one place to another, miles, nautical miles, a sea becalmed and intimate where you move a galaxy to discover strange, that happens inside a vessel with capacity for 900 passengers where luxury justifies everything, where hedonism without cracks becomes the norm and the traveler looks and make up, reminiscent of Conrad (”we live as we dream, alone”) and is drawn by a vague sense of time without time indoors, by a slight cramp of anxiety when the turbines and a roar begins to think that for seven days must assimilate the spirit of good sailors, the essential rite of seafarers: discard anything that is not used for the journey, all the conventions, schedules, routines the stocks purchased. And then yes, the trip begins at sea.

We lost sight of the luggage at the airport in Copenhagen. But we find in the cabin. We are already on board. In a penthouse with private balcony, living room, dresser, king size bed with Egyptian cotton sheets, flat screen TV and DVD, wine and spirits … And Greg. Greg 24 hours. Continue reading »

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