A very kind welcome from Ana when we arrived, she gave us concise and useful information.

Apartment site very convenient from many viewpoints :

-For grocery shopping (calle Santa Isabel with the Anton Martin market and numerous fruits, vegetables and meat shops in immediate vicinity. Bakeries up Atocha street, before Anton Martin underground station, left side of the sidewalk when walking up the road). For good wine you’ll need to push a little harder.
-To hang out in the tiny streets, full of live and curiosities, of “ Las letras “ district
-To visit the inescapable Museo del Prado (10 mn walking) and Museo Reina Sofia (4 mn walking)
-To reach city centre (plaza del Sol) 12 to 15 mn
-To take high speed train (AVE) in Atocha station 5 mn walking + 1h42 mn to reach Cordoba, 90 mn for Valencia, 2h30 for Sevilla, 2h43 for Barcelona… ¡ Vale !

Apartment is functional, well equipped with well furnished bookshelves for amateur arts.

Quiet according to Madrid standards, although probably not as much according to Lofoten Islands standards… but if you feel that the night crowd having a good time in the Tapas bar “La Berenjena” right across the street is a bit noisy, you can keep your pyjama on, walk down the stairs, join the party, meet new people and barter a half night sleep against a few cup of a varietal Garnacha wine from “Campo de Borja” and a set of fine tapas. And if you are marginally vindictive and insist to piss off the bar tender to take a mean-spirited revenge for the noise just tell him his tapas are not bad but not as good as the Pintxos you had in Bilbao. After that you’ll still have half the night to sleep like a baby dreaming of your new place, new friends, new enemy and new flavours, in short your new life in Madrid thanks to Ana flat.