I previously posted about the nightlife here in Madrid, and how different it is from the United States. Last night, Thursday Sept. 29, we went on an adventure that showed us just how different they truly are.
Our night started at a really good Mexican place in Chueca. Really cheap food and drinks, and we got to watch some amateur salsa dancers while we ate. Then we headed off to La Latina, the location of the Bucket Bar. The bar's real name is Cervecería La Sureña, but we gave it a different name because you can buy 5 beers in a bucket for 3 euros. While there, we chatted with some Spaniards, giving our Spanish a little bit of a warm-up.
After leaving La Sureña, we found a promoter for a bar my friend Jeannette had been to, so we got in for free and got a free drink. It was pretty empty, because by Madrid standards we were out a little bit early. The music was fun though, and we hung out there for a little while.
By the time we left this bar, it was past 1 am, so the Metro had closed. So we headed off on foot to Puerta del Sol, the center of the city, to go to our favorite discoteca. We found a promoter we had met before who got us in for free and got us a free shot. We stayed there for a couple hours and danced. We met Americans, Spaniards, and other Europeans, and we chatted and danced the night away. After a couple hours, however, we got tired of dancing and being on our feet. So off we went.
Heading back to Sol, we decided to go to the Irish pub my friends love that they found their first night in Madrid, La Fontana de Oro. We did not find a promoter, mostly because it was late at night, but we just headed down to the basement to rest our feet. We met a group of Swiss students on a trip before they start college. We hung out with them for a while, since they were finishing up a game of pool. Then we all left together to try to find another discoteca. We had been approached by a promoter early in the night, so we headed in that direction
We found another promoter for the same place, so we followed him to his discoteca. Once we got there, his prices went up, and it turned out that two of the Swiss students weren't 18 yet, so they wouldn't have been able to get in.
At this point, we wanted to end our night, but it was only a little after 4, and the Metro doesn't reopen until 6. So we decided to head to where we had been told the best chocolate con churros can be found in Madrid. Turns out, its a 24 hour location, so we sat down to steaming hot chocolate and two heaping plates of churros. Everything was really thick and heavy, and I could barely finish my chocolate. We sat and chatted with the Swiss students until around 5:40, when we decided to head to the nearest Metro station to wait for it to open.
In the end, I didn't get home until after 6:30 am. It was a very long night, but I had a LOT of fun. Definitely not a schedule I could hold to every night like the true madrileños, but it was a great experience.
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