Madrid

I didn’t really understand what was around Madrid until we started leaving it. We moved to the area a couple of years ago, and for the first few months I treated day trips like a checklist — Toledo because everyone says Toledo, Segovia because the aqueduct photos are genuinely incredible, Ávila because it came up […]

I didn’t really get Madrid until I stopped visiting it. I’d been a handful of times before I moved here. And my honest impression was: hot, busy, overwhelming. A capital city doing capital city things. I liked it fine. I didn’t love it. Then we moved nearby, and I started seeing it differently. After some