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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Hi Mark,
You might consider recommending them going to visit the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. They have some very interesting material and there is a large portion dedicated to youngsters.
I think that the Museo del Arte de Reina Sofia, has a special program for kids under 18 on saturdays, which is pretty cool.
CosmoCaixa is always a sure hit, it's a science museum, and almost 100% interactive, the kids will love that.
You have the Planetario too, and you can also take them ice skating at the Palacio de hielo.
There's also El Parque de Atraccioens de Madrid, Faunia, and Warner Bros Park.
You can also take them for a boat ride over at the Retiro Park,
There's really plenty of stuff to do,
If I remember anything else, I'll let you know.
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| Posts: 66 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 23 July 2002 | |
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good stuff Albert!!!  MarkE, as far as getting around the city goes, one thing i recall being popular amongst people who had brought kids to visit madrid was the madrid vision bus open-top bus tour. the doubledecker busses are fun for kids and they will also save parents a LOT of "mom/dad, my feeeeeet huuuuuuuurrrrt!!!". also pretty inexpensive, all day passes for kids 7-16 yrs. old are just 7 euros and kids under 7 ride free  more in english at www.madridvision.es/indexengland.htm saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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You should follow the same advice that I gave about cats.  No. Just kidding. What you should really do is swing by any of your local tourist offices and get a free copy of their monthly publication called 'Que Hacer - What's On' Judging by the list of things that Albert suggested he has one and was just hitting the tip of the ice burg on the stuff listed there that you could do. It also has a section just for children as well as sightseeing and museums with all of the hours, names, numbers, addresses, etc. It may just end up salvaging your whole situation as the kids can pick what interests them out of this free guide book.
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| Posts: 881 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 08 November 2002 | |
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hey MarkE, if it were long term i would say to also go to the fnac and look at the books they have on madrid for children. i remember seeing a few there when i was looking through some madrid guides a while back. they are in spanish however. saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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Blast, Rocco  Went to search for your opinion on Cats......can imagine what you said, but can´t find it!!!!!!! Link please!!!!!
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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ok sue, now you be crazy (or lazy)  i know the board has changed but a search is still a search   (and for the record, the search function on the new board is one of the VASTLY improved ones). it took me about 6 seconds to find it at http://spaintalk.multimadrid.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1651030511/m/8891081511what scares me even more about your not being able to find it is that you even posted on the thread as well  saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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 Buggeration and buggeration again  Why oh why am I having these problems!!!!!!!!!!  Can´t even see the search facility!!! I searched under Find for "cats in madrid" and got nothing! I know it´s only me having the problems.... but jer......I am anything but lazy as far as this board is concerned....
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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sue. the search facility is under the main menu where it says "Find". you used the search ok but if you are on a specific forum, the default option of "Search current forum only" is checked off under the search box where you put in the text to look for (in this case "cats in madrid"). since this is the " madrid links, links and más links" forum, it makes sense that no results for those words would come up if you left the "Search current forum only" box checked before you did the search. ok, do this. try it again. click "Find" and then put "cats in madrid" into the "Keyword Search" box that drops down. BUT THIS TIME UNCHECK THE "Search current forum only" BOX BEFORE YOU HIT THE Go BUTTON TO PERFORM THE SEARCH. it will search in all forums that way and you will get tons of great results. by the way, the old search form (but improved) is at http://spaintalk.multimadrid.org/eve/forums?a=srchf and you can get it by simply clicking "Find" on the main menu of any forum page and then "Advanced Search". that will open the complete search page (the one you are used to) in the whole browser window  saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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See, I did do all of that and all I got was 19 matches and not one of them from Rocco!!! (frustrated graemlin) Sorry guys, that I am being so useless!!!! Still here,still reading, still love you all  but perhaps just won´t be posting so much! (Thank goodness for that I hear you cry!)
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| Posts: 1811 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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sue, don't get so down on yourself. the thread was NOT started by Rocco but rather by Juliette, that is why you did not spot it in the search results. it was the one entitled "Moving my cat to Spain" and Rocco simply had an absurd comment on the first page which became a running joke. anyone who takes the time to get used to the new board software will see that is is FAR SUPERIOR to the old and has tons of cool new functions/features. Modigy, you have to read the thread http://spaintalk.multimadrid.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1651030511/m/8891081511 to appreciate it fully saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 | |
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