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Written to be used on the day, not bookmarked and forgotten.

Drinks · Madrid

low lights, good drinks, no rush to leave.

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Itinerary

There is a correct way to spend Sunday in this city and it ends with you achieving nothing. Here is the route.

Notebook

Three cities, one habit that makes all of them better, and it costs nothing.

TripsSponsored

The same square can be unbearable at two and close to empty at half past seven. Almost all Rome advice is really timing advice.

Stays

Central Madrid does not get quiet until about four. That single fact should decide your booking.

Tables

Rome's best cheap food is counter food. Learn four formats and you can eat properly for a week on very little.

Stays

In a city built on hills, the address decides the trip. The room is the easy part.

Tables

A weekend is four real meals and a lot of coffee. Spending one of them badly is a quarter of the trip.

Itinerary

Short-haul from almost anywhere in Europe, and small enough to do properly in a weekend — if you get the order right.