I'm in Santiago right now and will be heading to Madrid on Saturday. I'm trying to get information on the wine and tapas walking tours in the old part of Madrid. I have tried emailing through their web site and through the email "Andres" has on his Madridman ID, but with no success. Can anyone help? I'll be in Madrid July 31-Aug 4 (in the middle of all the heat!)

Lynn

Hi there!
While I'm not absolutely positive, I think Andrés may be doing less of these tours these days. Okay, Andrés, we'll "allow" you to tell us here, now, if you're still giving the tours and with what frequency. Also, it's possible that Andrés may be taking his vacation (right now or) during this time you'll be in Madrid - as do many madrileños and other Spaniards.

Andrés? What do you say?

linalaprofe, if you're able to take the tour, will you please give us your review here in this thread? Thanks! And enjoy the rest of your time in Spain!

Saludos, MadridMan

UPDATE: Wow! Andrés has changed his Walks of Madrid website. Also linalaprofe, I believe that while the website's URL is walksofspain.com the website is called Walks of Madrid.

Lynn,

I am glad you started this thread. I also wanted to take the Walk of Madrid tour, when we are in Madrid in September. I sent an email June 30th, and I had got no response...until now. Funny,..I was going to send another email after reading your post, but Andres just replyed.

Apparently, they are emailing those interested, when they get a group together. So, maybe Andres is going to respond to your query real soon! Let me know how it is if you go on the tour. It sounds great! Good luck!

Thanks, Andres for replying!

Jose Luis "Louie"

I too just heard from Andres and unfortunately, it doesn't look like they have enough to make a tour (sounds like it's just me interested). They have a group forming for July 30 but I'll still be in Santiago :-(

Does anyone know of any other of these types of "tours" that I might be able to take?

Lynn

There's always the Wellington Society evening tours given by the incomparable Stephen Drake-Jones.

Good point. Stephen Drake-Jones' The Wellington Society historical tours of Old Madrid are really First Class and you make a couple tapas-and-wine stops along the way. They're usually scheduled "early" though, at around 7pm or 8pm and last about 1.5 hours. Stephen Drake-Jones is really just the greatest, wonderful British sense of humor (he's British, yes), and so charismatic.

Saludos, MadridMan

I might be mistaken but I recall that the first tour I went on last year had stops in four different bars and lasted about two hours. And another tour which I joined in progress a few weeks later didn't finish until about 11. Perhaps it depends on the mood of the illustrious Chairman.