The flight over was nice and smooth. Flying so close to the equinox and so far north, the sun never completely set. Even being in the economy (cattle) class was quite enjoyable, as it's just nice to be out traveling again.
The airport in Madrid wasn't busy, so getting through immigration was a breeze. Bought a metro pass, made my way to the metro station and was on my way to find Bailley.
We met at the La Latina metro stop since she had already checked into the AirBnB and I had no idea where it was even :) . The apartment is really nice and in a wonderful location.
A nice stroll through the old section (El Centro) to James Julian Becerro for dinner and my first jamon bocadillo. The waitress was very helpful... I saw that cheese was extra and thought, hey, I'm going all out so 'yes'. She tried to tell me 'no' and she saw I was confused so she used her phone to translate... her words were "to add cheese onto this ham is a sin." We took her word and were very happy with the order. Man, I thought being from the south I knew about ham... nah, the Spanish *know* about ham.
We walked around a bit, but then back to the apartment so I could collapse and try to recuperate from the trip.
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