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Stealthy Madrid Starbucks where Calle Reina runs into Calle Marques de Valdeiglesias |
It was toward the end of a three-week
European trek, when I awoke early one morning in Madrid longing for a grande
Starbucks breve latte with an extra shot.
Yes, I had been feasting on wonderful Euro coffees all along, but my true roots were calling. I am an unabashed coffee aficionado, who
happens to enjoy Starbucks style blends as well. I needed my Starbucks fix.
At the time, I was staying at the late great Hotel Ada
Palace where Gran Via runs into Calle de Alcala and I decided to walk out into
the pre-dawn city in search of needed exercise and eventually a nice cup of
coffee—somewhere.
My first steps out of the hotel to the left (north) into the
narrow Calle Marques de Valdeiglesias that would eventually lead me uptown
toward the Palace Hotel and beyond.
Little did I know just within a few feet more I’d run into a
Starbucks located at the intersection of two Madrid alleys. What were the odds, I asked myself?
I laughed at my good fortune and thanked the coffee
gods. I had my Starbucks fix and I was
good to go for another week of Euro coffee.
Later, I learned that the Starbucks isn’t listed on any of
the maps of Madrid. You just have to be
lucky.
Starbucks
Calle
Reina and Calle Marques de Valdeiglesias
Madrid,
Spain
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