MM - I just pulled up the site and it looks as if there are a variety of tours - which was the one you went on?

[see above] Puna, I went on the " Walks of Old Madrid ". These are the most frequent/common tours, but he also schedules tours to Toledo, Segovia, and other places if the need arises. Tell Chairman that MadridMan says hello! We got along very well... he even let me hold his cane for a few minutes. hehehe.. Hope you get to go, Puna. You won't be sorry!

Saludos, MadridMan

I must be an idiot - I pulled up the site and it lisetd a variety of "walks" - Old Madrid ; Hemingway's Madrid; Madrid & Spanish Civil War; Tapas Hopping throug old Madrid - and so forth! Thanks for your clarrification -
Happy Thanksgiving - drive safe ....

Hello,

Coming back to our original topic... tavern crawl ! ha!ha! I figured the price was ok (and i am Canadian so its about 18$ for me not 14$).

All our drinks were paid so were the tapas. In all, we went to five places - so five drinks (vermouth on tap, an old vino tinto tipical from Madrid, cider, ice wine and a drink with mint... at the salsa club). For tapas, we had clams, some kind of cold pain perdu. Of course, since we were only two paying people, I understand that Andres had little problem making his fees... So for the quality-price, i think it was great !

My boyfriend insist, however that i tell you he wished Andres knew a little more about the music scene of Madrid, he was looking for young, popular spanish music stuff (we latter found out about Kiko Veneno and Hevia) and maybe the historical caracter of places we went to... I for one thought it was ok for want we paid and what i expected.

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Yeah. It's kind of a shame that there weren't more people in the group to make it even more interesting. As I understand it, he had a group of almost 20 the week before and that was just TOO many for this kind of "tavern tour".

I think we too went to that salsa club. In Huertas, right? Was it El Torero or something like that? We danced to salsa there for almost an hour. I guess it's one of Andres' favorite places. The people inside seemed to REALLY be enjoying themselves. As far as I could tell, it didn't have a dancefloor, but people were dancing ALL around the bar.

Yes. I agree. If you're not familiar with the city, this kind of paid service to escort you to these nice, less touristy bars is VERY useful. I wish Andres the best of luck with Walks Of Spain tavern crawl tours.

Saludos, MadridMan

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MM,

Torero is at calle de la Cruz and it's not the Salsa club mimijac was talking about. They play Spanish music at Torero and that includes a few salsa / merengue ... hits. But it's mainly music from Spain.

The salsa club we are talking about is called "El Son" and it's one of Andres' favourite places.

Regards,

Antonio

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thanks for the info madridman. just e-mailed the chairman about when i arrive in madrid. hopefully we'll work something out. i'm really looking forward to meeting this chap. from what you describe, i'm going to love this guy's humour.

by the way madridman, the chairman sends his warmest regards to you. he says that MAYBE i'll be as lucky as you and have the honour of not only holding his cane, but having my picture taken with it. =)

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nicholeye, I may have missed it, but, if you don't mind me asking, what dates are you going to Madrid? I'm going from Dec. 29-Jan. 16 and would love to meet a fellow San Diegan!

that would be great laduque. i arrive in madrid on the 6th of january. we'll have to try and meet up. by the way, which part of san diego are you from?