Greetings from Madrid

Hi everyone!

Well here I am on the next trip to the Med! We flew into Madrid and had a day at leaisure yesterday before we began work when everyone arrived today. We spent the day wandering all over the city to scout locations.

I have never been to Madrid before and what can I say about it? It is a very urban city (Spain's capitol) and at times while walking around, I felt like I could be in almost any city in the world. It is crowded with people who have no sense of spacial relations - they just walk right into you without a sorry, excuse me, or really even noticing that they just almost knocked you over! The buildings are all about 10 stories tall, most with commercial space on the ground floor and apartments upstairs. Some are what I consider typically Spanish - brighttly colored buildings, with wrought iron terraces on every window. A very quaint and scenic sight in the middle of a concrete and crowded jungle.

The people are always, and I mean 24-7, dressed to the nines! At 10am on a Wednesday morning, I witnessed outfits even I wouldn't wear out to clubs! Where are these people going I wondered. I was never answered. These are the same people that will plow you over in their Manolos without so much as a glance!

The most surprising thing about Madrid so far is that very very few people speak English. To be a total America, I always assume that when I travel to Europe, I will be fine bcs everyone will speak English. Not so in Madrid. My high school Spanish is rapidly coming back to me, though it is not perfect. I wanted a door opened for some shooting and apparently kept telling the guy to close it and was so frustrated when he kept closing it on the shot and I couldn't understand why!

The weather is unreal - almost 80 and sunny so far both days and just fantastic. Send all your karma to us that it stays this way!

Nonetheless, it has been very fun so far! The cast is fantastic and Spain is great! Here are a few pics, I will post more as we go on/ We leave for Barcelona in 2 days!