I spent only a weekend there, but it was awesome! The first night their soccer team “Real Madrid” won the championship (I think) so there was celebration going on all night out in the streets.

I was apprehensive at first about the hostel that I picked out—Apparently according to my guidebook it was sort of in a red-light district (a fellow passenger on the train compared it to Hell’s Kitchen decades ago). Luckily for us it wasn’t that bad at all (right around the corner from McDonald’s – I felt safe ;).