The Salamanca neighborhood of Madrid is one of if not its poshest. Fancy hotels, fancy restaurants, and fancy stores with few products in a large, expensive space dominate the horizon. Indeed there are fancy wine shops as well which are exactly what I’m not searching out while traveling. Honestly, I’d only set foot there once previously as it’s also the neighborhood with the embassies (shocking, I know) and I had to renew a passport. At the bottom of Salamanca, just up from the exceedingly pleasant Retiro Park, is the Wellington […]

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