8/23/2025 Breakfast. This time I ask for an omelet with tomato and cheese. I also end up with a slice of ham, a croissant, a slice of toast, fruit, and coffee. The buffet looks as good as it did yesterday. Richard makes himself a breakfast sandwich of ham and cheeses which seems to be a very European type of breakfast and why these buffets always have meats, cheeses, etc. Check out is easy. Taxi to the train station. Cost 9.70€/$11.39
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| Taxi to train station |
Toledo train station. Our Renfe tickets are for 12:30 pm arriving Madrid 1:05 pm. Cost 22.20€ for the both of us. There is a gift shop at the train station and a cafe. I bought a coffee mug and a booklet on Toledo at the gift store. Cost 16.00€
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Our tickets Toledo to Madrid
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| Coffee mug I bought |
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| Book about Toledo |
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| Train station platform |
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| Our train |
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| Our train |
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| On our way to Madrid! |
Atocha train station/Madrid. While here I bought some bars of soap from The Body Shop. Cost 5.00€ From here we take a taxi to our hotel. Cost 6.70€
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Atocha train station
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Hotel Emperador. We will stay here 8/23-8/28/2025, 5 nights. Cost Check in is easy. We have a security card we need to use for the elevator to get to our floor. We're in room 909. The room is fine and has a nice view. We unpack and decide to check out the pool. The pool is on the roof top. It's a good size. Plenty of seating. There's also a bar/cafe of sorts. Pool is open from 10:00 am-9:00 pm. We spend around an hour at the pool just recharging/relaxing. It's hot and sunny.
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| Our room-909 |
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Beds
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TV
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Wardrobe
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| Bathroom |
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| Bathroom |
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| Kettle, coffee & tea |
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| Water |
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| Safe and small fridge |
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| Desk area |
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| View from room |
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| Richard is enjoying himself |
Hard Rock Shop. Taxi from our hotel to Hard Rock. Cost 11.50€/$13.51 As luck would have it the Pandora store is right here. I go there first and buy the Spain charm Cost 59€/$69.30. Next stop-Hard Rock. My plan was to go to the Hard Rock for dinner and also to pick up some souvenirs from the shop. I get shot glasses and a T shirt. Cost 77.35€/$90.85 But the girl in the shop tells me that the cafe has been closed for 5 years! She writes down a place we can go to for dinner. Taxi to Hyatt Centric Gran Via. Cost 9.55€/$11.22
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| Taxi to Hard Rock |
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| Pandora store |
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| Hard Rock shop |
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| Hard Rock shop |
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| Hard Rock shot glasses |
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| Hard Rock Madrid T shirt |
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| Taxi from Hard Rock to Hyatt |
El Jardin de Diana. Dinner. Located in the Hyatt hotel. This is a roof top bar with great city views. Signature cocktails, bar food. We have no reservation so we waited around 5-10 minutes for a table. It's very busy and it's a large area. Drinks-Richard gets a Sprite and I ordered the Samba-rum, cachaca, lime, pineapple, mango, and agave nectar. It was yummy! Food-we ordered the mini cheeseburgers plus 1 so we'd get 4. Comes with chips. No fries on the menu. Cost 50.00€/$58.73 Taxi back to our hotel. Cost 5.80€/$6.81
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| Elevator to the roof |
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| Sprite |
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Cocktail-Samba
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| Mini cheeseburgers with chips |
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| Taxi back to our hotel |
Back at our hotel Richard decides not to go with me to Avila tomorrow. He's just not feeling up to it. Pretty night views from our room.
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