Madrid is one of largest cities in Europe, following London, Paris and Berlin. My impression is that Madrid is a generally unfriendly and inaccessible city of 5-6m people. As impersonal as a city like Madrid can be (like a Dallas or a Mexico City) we found that many of the individual residents we met were wonderful and very congenial. One memorable encounter included a dashing young Spanish engineer with a bright green neck tie who we met on the train. He generously helped us navigate our passage in the Madrid central station from the Alta Velocidad Española "Bullet Train" terminal (200 mph transport from Barcelona to Madrid) to the local train that took us to our hotel.
For whatever reason, we found it very difficult to get good and inexpensive eats in Madrid. The low-end Spanish food did not appeal to us. (More on that topic later.) Here are some pictures of the street scene in central Madrid that I took while sipping a large iced coffee (a USA-only import) at a table on the sidewalk in front of a Starbucks.
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