“There’s just something about it.” That uninformative and unimaginative statement is how I had been explaining my love affair with Madrid for the year and a half I had lived there. A more descriptive testimonial was needed if I ever hoped to make friends and family understand why Spain’s capital city was one of my favorite places.
Formulating that testimonial was my objective as I sat at an outdoor café in the Parque de Buen Retiro one April Sunday afternoon.
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