Our First Impressions of Spain in Madrid 🇪🇸
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- We've made it to SPAIN (Country #6)! Madrid was our very first stop in Spain, and after trying some traditional Spanish foods and strolling around the city, we got a handful of first impressions to share. We decided to splurge the extra buck to eat at the oldest restaurant in the entire world, which was conveniently located in the heart of Madrid. With bellies full, we left Madrid very happy, and we can already tell that Spain is going to be a delight for food lovers. Looking forwards to eating and experiencing our way through many parts of Spain for the next little while! 🇪🇸
Follow along to see where we head next.
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Spain is on my bucket list. It's such a gorgeous and unique country with astonishing architecture, beautiful language, beautiful people, and positive vibes🇪🇸♥️.
Madrid was the supeer surprise in Europe. The most elegant and supercool city Ive been in Europe
Madrid es una ciudad muy guay. Madrid is a very cool city!!!
You don't need to buy bottled water. I can assure you that in your kitchen can get one of the natural best waters of Europa. Try it and wellcome to Madrid.💕💕😉👍
Another great video! By the way, Madrid has some of the best tap water you’ll ever taste and it’s totally safe to drink. Just ask for “agua del grifo” and you’ll get free tap water. Other cities like Barcelona may not have such great tap water but there’s absolutely no need to order bottled water in Madrid!!
i concur. i lived there for over a decade and the water is always cold and delicious out of the tap
Te lo puedo asegurar. Soy de Barcelona pero el agua de Madrid es mucho más buena.
Soo enjoying your culinary feasts. I’m a foodie on day 38 with no taste due to Covid….
I’m using my memory to summon up flavours. Your meals are invoking so many of those memories.
Wow I can’t imagine how hard that must be! Hope your taste buds return soon and you’re back to 100%. We feel honored to help remind you of what food tastes like for the time being.😁
Manchego cheese is always made with sheep's milk and it's the traditional cheese in Spain and can be found everywhere!
I think they meant rare globally. I'm not sure if you can get it in your local grocery store in whatever country you live in.
Sheep goat and cow mixed
There are some one hundred different traditional cheeses in Spain .
@@Udeolecrab, no. Manchego has to be from sheep milk only. Otherwise It is not Manchego according to its DOP regulations.
Hi guys! A new spaniard suscriber here! I liked it! La casa de campo is the biggest park in Madrid, like 13 times el retiro There is also madrid rio, among others. Madrid is one of the greatest capitals in Europe. I wish you have great time in 🇪🇸!
Hi! Thanks for choosing to subscribe! La casa de campo, sounds like another place we'll have to visit someday! Madrid is a fantastic city! People have been kind everywhere we have gone!! Excited to share more of our time in Spain.
Tienes razon! Creo que Madrid es el mejor cuidad en el mundo! (aunque no he visto todos los cuidades en el mundo).
How treacherous is the subconscious because I wanted to say "the greenest" and come out "the greatest"
sobresaliente y asombroso video. Great job 👍👍. You and not making a video, instead you are making classic. The acting (presentation), story telling, editing and music are top notch and awards winning, top notch and bar none. You two really amaze me.
The suckling pig and roasted lamb (300 years restaurant) looks so delicious. 😋 The overall ambience and lights felt very romantic and classical. Claire your Spanish is very fluent. Chad your free water scenes reminds me if your Joshua Tree episode. Bring back great memories.
You guys are amazing and born to this.
Congrats are your sixth country, Spain. Wow looking forward to your adventure and food. Can’t wait for your next episode.
One of our favorite things about YOUR videos that has inspired us is your enthusiasm and radiant joy you have towards sharing your food and life with others. Joshua Tree, wow you are a true fan! We don't even remember what happened back then. Guess we gotta rewatch our videos. Thanks for your support :) Looking forward to your new videos.
We also have tapas but that you ordered in the video were "raciones" which is a large portion, in Madrid you get a tapa for free with a drink but when you are going to take a lunch for example they serve you raciones or medias raciones (half), that's the difference
Good morning i have a restaurant that 100 hundred years old in my town .its called wayside not sure i spelled it right..so happy for a new vidoe
We love visiting places like this with so much history and ambiance! The brickwork was so pretty too.
I love Madrid
I had dinner at Botin as well. It was pricey but well worth it for its history and my memories of my time there. I don't know where you are heading to next but Segovia and Toledo are great day trips.
Thanks for the recommendations! So good you were able to eat there as well.
Hey guys, just to clarify that you´re completely wrong about free water in Spain: first of all, because there´s actually a law that requires restaurants to offer tap water for free, if you require it; it´s another matter if you´re a couple of tourists who obviously like tourists, going to touristy places, and they charge you a ridiculous amount for bottled water... ;)
Moreover, Spain is an unusually generous country regarding "free water", meaning by that from the smallest villages to the biggest cities, you´re always going to find a zillion places to drink water for free: around 2000, just in Madrid. As a matter or fact, you can even use an app to show you the location of every single one of those fountains, and take you to the closest one, as Google Maps would do. Something I´m not exactly sure you can do in the USA... ;)
Have a great stay!
Wow that's so awesome to know! Thanks for sharing and the free water app sounds amazing as well. All this talk about water has made me thirsty now. haha
Do you happen to know if this is only in Spain or if it's the same way across Europe as well?
Yes, but we've been living in Madrid for a year and getting waiters to bring us our free water has been a constant struggle. We have to ask several times and even then we sometimes still don't get it.
iup in europe you generally ask for the tap water, and it is free, in Portugal is the same. of course they try to sell you bottled water in a restaurant, but they generally cant deny tap water to anyone.
@@theSSHITT that's because your spanish isn't good enough and they didn't understand you 😅 here you can go to a bar and ask for a glass of tap water for free, or sit for lunch or dinner in a restaurant and ask for a full jar of tap water for free no problem
The problem is: in some regions tap water has not good taste like Levante, Murcia or Andalucía
@@IronMetal It is not because our Spanish isn't good enough. My wife received a level B2 certificate from the government of Spain and consistently places in B2 level classes (advanced intermediate). She goes days on end without speaking English. She successfully orally defended a written thesis in Spanish, reads Cervantian literature in Spanish, has a degree in Spanish philology. I think she orders a glass of water just fine. She speaks Spanish better than I do and I am Puerto Rican. My Puerto Rican family does not speak English. We know the water is free. The waiters just keep forgetting to bring it. They do the same thing to our Spanish friends too. Please don´t diagnose the problem when you don´t know much about us. Do you know anything about us actually?
Un Mejicana hablando inglés en Madrid... vaya por Dios!
Hay un canal de una argentina/coreana casada con un coreano y han visitado España. Élla utilizando un perfecto español y él un perfecto coreano, incluso con expresiones españolas que le enseña su esposa. ¡¡Maravillosos!!
🙋🏽♀️Good Morning Both of you💗❤️…
I’m so excited for this next journey (trip)🤗let’s roll. I so enjoy you both and very much enjoy our time together 💓💯💯💯
Loved the greenhouse, but the pork !! My mouth was watering watching you eat the pork, love the history. Thank you as usual for the great experience, safe travels ! Looking forward to your next city 😊🌺
Another excellent presentation. Your videos are helping me to decide where I would like to travel in the future. Great job you two!!
Hello from the City of Smiles🌞🎭🇵🇭...it's soo nice to see u enjoying Madrid...especially its gastronomic offerings. My husband and I had a trip there a couple of years ago and it just brought back a lot of happy memories...like you teo, we do the DIY way of going around. The churros con chocolate at San Gines is the best I have tasted. I hope you will be able to visit Seville...also a Beautiful City and watch the Flamenco Dance Show! Just amazing. Enjoy and safe travels to the both of you.🌞🎭🇵🇭
I've been following you two for a few months. You guys do an amazing job editing and shooting your videos! Very intriguing from beginning to end. Claire has such a natural precense about her doing food reviews and Chad's history lessons are calming and informative. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
Thanks for following along for so long! Glad you enjoy the videos, we enjoy the entire process (filming and editing), plus teamwork makes the dream work! haha
@@ChadandClaire pork is BAD for you
@@a.qa.q3054 not this pork! Their diet consists of acorns, grass, mushrooms, not what is fed here in the states, I'm vegetarian but will always make exception for this type if pork!
@@karen30ful also in religion pork is bad
3:13 Really cool. 👍
Wonderful to watch yet another video from a lovely couple. Well narrated as usual; great travel tips for future tourist; and a healthy walk in the park motivates me to do the same. Glad you're able to budget for what's truly important to you. That restaurant was very unique and special.
We live just a few blocks from here in Madrid now and can't wait to visit! We just found your channel and love it!
Oh I loved this! My channel is based in Madrid and I loved seeing all these places through your guys first impressions! Also I think it's great that you get informed on everything you're sharing about, it really adds a lot to the video ☺
Thanks so much for your content! I will have to say to hear you both give a little history and mindfulness about each location or restaurant is a very authentic delivery please don't change a thing! I just followed you on Patreon LOVE IT!
Watching all of the videos in Spain brought back so many memories of Madrid. I have been to La Plaza Mejor, El Parque de Retirro, the Museo del Arte, la Palicia. We ate tapas in "bars". Desserts have definitely improved over the years! The choices then were flan ads flan! Thanks for the memories.
Wow!!! The resturant is so beautiful. Exciting you two got to eat down below in the wine cellar and tour the kitchen The good portions at both places you ate at were really huge. Can’t wait for your next video. Always exciting to see where you go You two really give history of where your at and explain the food you are eating. Makes me hungry lol🤣
Great video! I am from Madrid and you can ask for free water in any restaurant fyi in a future trip!!
We love Madrid so much! We were watching your Peru videos because we are about to go and saw that you are in Madrid right now. We just left! I moved on Nov. 28th of last year to Madrid and many of your shots are of my neighborhood. We have Don Quijote lessons in the Retiro by the Palacio de Cristal every month. You hit upl the spots and taught us about the Matador. We've been to Botín 3 times because it's not that hard to get a table because it's so big and for the oldest restaurant in the world, it's actually not that expensive if you think about what it would cost to go to the oldest restaurant in Paris, Tokyo, London, or Manhattan.
YUM! What a wonderful 24 hours!!! Safe travels!
hey guys we were there in sept of 2021! did all the same things! so cool to see the video and reminisce a bit during xmas staycation! cheers!
Enjoy your videos a lot! Informative and fun! Can you pls share where did you stay in Madrid? We are planning to go by the end of April. Thanks!
You guys are awesome and entertaining to watch, Also looking forward towards ur next videos 💯👍
Thank you so much 😁
En Madrid el Palacio Real es visita obligada. Por lo que veo de sus vídeos prestan especial interés a la gastronomía, que en España es muy rica y variada.
Viva españa 🇪🇸
I cannot believe that you have traveled so much at the tender age of twenty-three. I enjoyed your trip to Machu Picchu, Peru as well as your trip to Madrid, Spain. Keep on trucking!
Thank you! We can’t believe it either! We are SO thankful.
Every time I hear Churros I think of " Book of life " , " churros churros, frosted churros " .
If the walls could talk in that restaurant, wow.
Thanks Chad n claire
Always enjoy your videos. would be great for a quick tour around your Air BnBs when you change location.
Great idea! We'll have to add that into some future videos!
Great pick on the churros place. I've been there probably 50 times maybe when I lived there. Shame you are only there 1 day. You could easily do a week there with museums. If you get a chance hit the flea market there, its insane: art, batteries, clothes, etc. Just be very wary of pick pockets. I met my ex there, makes me very nostalgic. :)
That churro place will be in my dreams for the rest of my life. Truly amazing. Thanks for all the tips, we know we'll be back again someday.
hey you two!!! 😊 Loved the food tour! Those desserts at the restaurant looked absolutely delicioussss. Also! Weirdly enough, we are trying to go to 50 countries too. And even more weirdly enough (is that grammatically correct?) I (Wyatt) am in Spain too! I'm teaching english in a little town called Ubrique in andalucía - It's absolutely gorgeous. All the buildings are white and it's tucked in between the Sierra de Cadíz so the fog rolls over the mountains and throughout the town whenever it gets rainy. The people are delightful too. If you ever want to come hang out and get a (food?) tour, go on an awesome hike, and hangout, let me know! Reyka is back in the US due to the short Schnegen Visa (she comes back in February) but I am here and happy to host some fellow 50-country-traveling, couple-vlogging, nomads like us. Take care y'all. And KEEP AT IT! This vlog was informative and very well shot! CHEERS! 🍻 🥰
Hey Wyatt and Reyka! So cool that you are planning on visiting 50 countries as well! Although we just posted our first Spain video we are actually leaving in less than one week and the rest of our time here is already planned out. We had to cut our overall trip for the year short since the next country we had plans to visit just closed its borders. We look forward to keeping in touch and following along on your adventures. No doubt we'll cross paths again soon!
I just google "Schnegen Visa" and wow I have learned a lot already. Really hope we can meet up someday!
@@ChadandClaire Hey!😊 No worries whatsoever we figured it was unlikely to make it happen so soon but at least we are excited to eventually meet up and explore the world together somewhere in the future. So sorry about the trip being cut short... I hope you are able to enjoy the rest of your European adventures. Take care you two 🥰 Let us know if you ever need anything.
@@ChadandClaire Us too!!! Also!! Video idea - we are interested to know what your favorite country has been so far so maybe when you hit 10 countries you can sum up each one and give us a favorite?? Would love to hear about that. Take care!!
Did you miss the Royal Palace and the Cathedral.? ‘love your vlog thru Spain. Next time explore Amazing Andalucia and its enchanting cities like Seville,Granada,,Ronda ,Malaga and Cordoba. They’re all jaw-dropping beautiful. Northern Spain -this region is has cities to die for . I’m talking about cities like San Sebastian, Oviedo, Santander, Bilbao,Santiago de Compostela
Great videos 👍🏻 just started following you guys you guys are super cute 🥰
A whirlwind tour. Beautiful and very interesting. Do you prefer to stay only a day or 2 per city or are you on a time crunch. Do you have a limited time in Europe? I'm not sure how the 90 day travel time for US citizens works . Will you need to leave Europe for 90 days then get to return there or are you trying to get thru all Europe in 90 days. When you did the van trip in the US you spent about the same amount of time in most states but your time limit was a year. Looks like your having a really excellent experience, and your energy is amazing for all you do, travel, tour, film and edit!! Thanks for sharing your travels!
You two are so cute together! Love your channel!
Great Day Out 😃💓💯
Most restaurants in Europe will serve you free tap water with a food purchase if you ask for it. Looked like you had a great time
I have never been to Spain. I have family there I never met. My 4 grandparents all came from Spain and one was from Madrid. Cool video. My mom made that omelet regularly but simply called it a potato cake as a side dish at dinner time.
Its not a potatoe cake its tortilla
@@SandraGarcia-lj3bd I was just saying my mom referred to it as a potato cake. Are you related to me :)?
Hi guys, I just ( literally two hours ago) found your channel and started watching your travel videos to Portugal because I’m planning a trip there. We are also a very foodie family and part of the “clean your plate completely club” 🤣🤣 I just want to ask you can you PLEASE tell us how much are the restaurant that you are visiting or just a picture of the bill. That would be a great help for us to plan or visits. Thank you ☺️
very interesting, the greenhouse was beautiful, the idea of eating in a restaurant from the 1700's, wow!
Spanish is like first European language ever heard by native Americans North and South of America or the americas
AND THE WATER IS FREE IN THE BARS AND RESTAURANTS BY LAW😉☝👍
hi, where did you stay in madrid? need some suggestions for airbnb etc
So cute 😍
Crema Catalana is Spain's version of Creme Brule, but it's much richer and contains a lot more eggs!
Eso de más rica para nada
i dont now why the people see tapas and pinchos like a food im spanish and i think that we have an conception that every bar gives some food for free but there is not a specific recipe or food, we have tapas like a form of say free food that they give in restaurants or bars, thats why there is not bars that put tapas in their menus
#WMAF, a match made in heaven
the water fact is not true I'm Spaniard and a glass of water its completely free
Gr8 info u cuties🌞
Glad you liked it!!
I came back from my trip to Spain on September 22 and we also eat at Botín can you tell me what date was that video taken
We ate there on November 16th!
La taberna y restaurante se mi barrio en Sevilla, que se llama Wl Rincobcillo esta abierto desde 1.670. No es verdad lo que decías de ese de Madrid. La torre de la iglesia de mi barrio, Santa Catalina, en Sevilla, se construyó en el 970. Lleva más de 1.000 años en pie. Vamos, informaros mejor de lo antigua que es España.
Pon una queja al libro de los record Guinness que es quien lo dice
Chad needs a haircut ahora. ;)
yeah my hair was all over the place in this video. (in most videos)
This is weird there was a girl in my kindergarten her name was Claire she was my best friend and my my name is Chad what's weirder is she looks exactly like u
Hi Chad.
- From Chad
Have you guys tried reaching out to hotels for a sponsored stay? I feel like you guys have enough subscribers to potentially get some free stays
Perhaps we will in the future! Definitely would help us save some money! Thanks for the suggestions.
World oldest restaurant? I don't think so - in Krakow , there is restaurant Wierzynek established in 1364 y
Oh in Salamanca, there is a yellow submarine bar. Very cool. If you want to see super depressing history go to Valle de los Caidos, the only fascist memorial built into a mountain for decades. Its insane. Each town will have its own drink and food. Be sure to ask. Great picks in Spain are: Toledo, Salmanaca, Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Cordoba, Zaragoza. Have fun.
Valle de los Caidos. Definitely doing some research on that place tonight. There is SO much to see in Spain.
It's not a fascist memorial, this statement is promoted by people with a political agenda. There are 30.000 combatants from both sides buried there.
It was supposed to be a monument for the fallen of both sides in the civil war, not exactly a fascist memorial.
LOL this guy looks like Mark weins twin
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