Madrid may not have a beach, but just a short drive north you can find La Pedriza in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range which provides a cool haven and…
Monthly Archives
January 2016
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City and CountrySport and Leisure
Skiing in Spain: brilliant Baqueira Beret
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 19, 2016I fell in love with Baqueira Beret before I had even set a single ski on one of it is Pyrenean pistes. I love to ski, and have done since…
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MadridUncategorized
First impressions? Madrid hides its charms…
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 19, 2016Madrid is roasting hot in the summer, there’s no getting away from that. I visited the City for the first time in July 2013, arriving at the cavernous Barajas…
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MadridSociety
Madrid’s weather: Eight months of winter, four months of hell?
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 19, 2016The English have a reputation for being obsessed about the weather. It is a reputation fairly earned, as well it might have been given the weather’s propensity for rapid change…
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City and CountrySociety
Life in Spain, welcome to Mainly On the Plain
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 19, 2016The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain… (My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, 1956) It’s been my intention to write a blog about life…