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My absolute favorite souvenir from a trip is one of my own making: A colorful, messy, scrapbook-y travel sketchbook.
Cliché artist togs and sketchbook: check and check!
The supplies don’t take up much room:
Optional: Dress up the sketchbook cover! I usually pick a single sticker from one of my favorite artists, Sara Hagale.
The goal is to fill as much of it as I can, taping in receipts and business cards, sketching out the dishes and drinks from each meal, and adding a burst of color with markers. Each page is unplanned and the end result is a true encapsulation of the trip.
Today I’m sharing my favorite pages from my time in Madrid, plus a list of my recommendations from this leg of the trip at the bottom of the email. Let’s go:
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Haley’s Madrid Recommendations:
Food and Drink
Angelita: Cool cocktail and tapas bar that doesn’t use any ice in their bar. Their menu featured some wild cocktails, including a fig tree and barley drink, a pumpkin and toast drink, and even a beverage with melon and ham. If you go here, get the ratatouille!
Santo Bakehouse: This bakery was an absolute delight. Obviously had to get a savory pastry and a sweet one. If they have it, get the feta and zaatar pinwheel.
TKO Tacos: A rec from Irma, the woman we met in the park. One euro tacos and five euro margs!!!
Bar Cock: My friend Mere studied abroad in Madrid and recommended this spot. Founded in 1921, it had cozy dark-wood paneling, fun art on the walls, and a damn good pisco sour.
Salmon Guru: This came recommended by so many people when I asked for must-go places on Instagram. The interior of this bar alone makes it worth visiting—a shag carpet column, colorful backlighting, neon signs, and a ceiling completely decked out in parasols. Fortunately, the drinks are innovative and delicious, too. I got one that came with a scoop of lemon sorbet, so.
Sights and Tourism
Sabatini Gardens: In a completely unsurprising twist, the Royal Palace of Madrid sits within a gorgeous garden and park, complete with a fountain, a hedge maze, and little robot lawn mowers that absolutely delighted Gideon.
Flamenco Show: We caught a performance at Las Tablas Flamenco and scored front row seats.
El Retiro Park: Row boats and turtles and a rose garden—what’s not to like?
Reina Sofia: A sprawling museum home to art by Spanish icons like Dali, Picasso, and Miro. The building, which once served as the first general hospital in Madrid, is stunning—worth the price of admission alone.
Lodging
7 Islas Hotel: Very comfy stay right in the thick of everything! Slept like shit here in spite of the bed. Also, Malin + Goetz shower products!
Shopping
Triolet Vintage Shop: For some reason I didn’t pack a jacket for this trip. Irma recommended this vintage shop, which had a coat selection beyond my wildest dreams (and most of them were well under 100 euros!). After some serious decision paralysis, I ended up with a camel suede number that I adore.
Postal y Tinta: A cute, tiny print store tucked in a narrow corridor with prints from local artists. To the person who recommended this shop to me on Instagram, thank you! It was a total highlight.
WOW Concept: Gideon and I walked past this place to and from our hotel so many times that eventually we decided to go in. If a department store and contemporary art gallery had a baby, it would be WOW. Worth the walk-through.
Sketchbooks and guides for Sevilla, Mallorca, and Barcelona coming soon. Till then!
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