{"id":6108,"date":"2017-04-21T06:31:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2017-04-21T06:31:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:31:02","slug":"traveling-around-madrid-life-international-school-teacher-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-madrid-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Madrid (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Madrid<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Madrid\"<\/a>
\nCan you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Visiting a city that you once visited 20+ years ago, and not really exploring it again like you did back then. Awesome!
\n\u2022 Finally going somewhere to practice the language you actually can speak (well kind of\u00a0fluently speak)
\n\u2022\u00a0Walking to go to the same store every day hoping that it would actually be open because you really want to buy something there.
\n\u2022\u00a0Traveling to a city during a time when the local culture is celebrating a big holiday; meaning that many of the stores and restaurants are not working during their normal working hours.<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u00a0Walking through the streets of the city to get to a certain location and then running into a huge American food grocery store. It was closed when we walked by, but still don’t think that we would have actually gone in. They always seems to stock stores like these with weird and unhealthy products that I wouldn’t normally buy if I was still living in the USA.
\n\u2022\u00a0Thinking about checking out the nightlife in the city, but realizing how tired you are after dinner; tired from walking around all day. Even taking the bus and public transport for most of the day makes you tired. Being a tourist somehow does make people tired, even if they are not doing so much strenuous work.
\n\u2022\u00a0Going to the Retiro park to watch many locals enjoy the nice weather and the green areas, but then also\u00a0watching the tourists just act loud basically destroying the peacefulness of being in the nature of the park!
\n\u2022 Realizing that in this city, it is important and almost standard to make reservations at a restaurant for lunch AND dinner times. Many of the restaurants are quite small, so this may be the contributing factor for making sure to book a table ahead of time.
\n\u2022\u00a0Not turning on the tv in our airbnb once to watch some local tv programs and commercials.
\n\u2022 Having a love\/hate relationship with how the local buildings were constructed. I think they were built to keep people cool during the really hot months of summer. But in the colder weather, the lack of insulation really makes being in an apartment a really cold experience (even when it is also cold outside, so you can’t escape it!).
\n\u2022\u00a0Enjoying listening to Spaniards just discuss mundane topics at length. I’m sure people who are native speakers of English do this as well, but it does seem like Spanish people really like to talk about things in detail that I think really don’t need to be talked about that much.<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u00a0Going on a day tour to some nearby cities, like Segovia. Taking in all the beauty\u00a0of the countryside and views of the hills and olive tree groves.
\n\u2022 Being very pleased with the local transportation options and their efficiency. Always nice to see people using it and it being dependable.
\n\u2022 Getting to the airport was so easy from where we were staying in the center of the city. If we lived in Madrid, it would be nice to have an option to get to the airport using public transportation that is cheap and quick.
\n\u2022 Watching and kind of participating in some local cultural traditions. We got to see some Easter processions in the street.
\n\u2022 Just enjoying walking the streets of the city and looking at the wonderful designs of the building facades of the apartment buildings there. I wish more cities would consider spending the extra money to make their city buildings beautiful to look at!<\/p>\n

Currently we have 32\u00a0<\/b>international schools listed in Spain on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>. 11<\/b>\u00a0of them\u00a0have had comments submitted on them. Here are a few of those schools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
American School Madrid<\/a><\/td>\nSpain, Madrid<\/td>\n65 (Total Comments)<\/td>\n3 (Members)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American School of Barcelona<\/a><\/td>\nSpain, Barcelona<\/td>\n157\u00a0(Total Comments)<\/td>\n17\u00a0(Members)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American School of Bilbao<\/a><\/td>\nSpain, Bilbao<\/td>\n44\u00a0(Total Comments)<\/td>\n1\u00a0(Members)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American School Valencia<\/a><\/td>\nSpain, Valencia<\/td>\n21\u00a0(Total Comments)<\/td>\n0\u00a0(Members)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Benjamin Franklin Int’l School<\/a><\/td>\nSpain, Barcelona<\/td>\n66\u00a0(Total Comments)<\/td>\n3 (Members)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a06 free months of premium membership!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Madrid Can you relate? \u2022\u00a0Visiting a city that you once visited 20+ years ago, and not really exploring it again like you did back then. Awesome! \u2022 Finally going somewhere to practice the language you actually can speak (well kind of\u00a0fluently speak) \u2022\u00a0Walking to go to the same store every day hoping that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[457,42,30,32,1530,1286,58,2386,152,1392,287,603,2385,1214],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling-around","tag-comments-and-information","tag-expat-life","tag-international-school-community","tag-international-schools","tag-international-schools-in-spain","tag-international-teacher-life","tag-international-teachers","tag-madrid","tag-teachers","tag-teaching-in-spain","tag-traveling","tag-traveling-around-2","tag-traveling-around-spain","tag-traveling-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_4877.jpg?fit=1280%2C753&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-1Aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3863,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-bermuda-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":6108,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Around: Bermuda (The life of an international school teacher is good!)","author":"ISCommunity","date":"December 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling Around:\u00a0Bermuda Can you relate? \u2022 Having an international school teacher friend that moved to a tropical location that you were FOR SURE\u00a0going to visit at some point. \u2022 Realizing that Bermuda is indeed\u00a0so close to the United States and only around 1.5 hour flight from JFK airport in New\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Traveling Around"","block_context":{"text":"Traveling Around","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/category\/traveling-around\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_2547.jpg?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_2547.jpg?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_2547.jpg?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_2547.jpg?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_2547.jpg?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2532,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/recently-updated-school-profiles-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":6108,"position":1},"title":"Recently Updated School Profiles #21: Shekou International School, American School Madrid & ASF of Mexico City","author":"ISCommunity","date":"January 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Members of\u00a0International School Community\u00a0have written some new and informative comments on the following schools: 14 Jan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shekou International School (14 new comments)\u00a0Shenzhen, China: One of the new comments in the School Information section: \"Folks that live in Shekou can smell home from miles away...distinctly smelly and fishy. 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