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Accor has opened its latest ibis property in the Spanish capital Madrid. The 159-room ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto is located on the site of the former Iveco-Pegaso factory, around ten minutes south of Madrid–Barajas airport in the city’s San Blas-Canilejas district. According to Accor the hotel “is part of a project to implement a large logistics hub next to the A-2 that will serve the whole of the city, revitalising a strategic area of Madrid”. The group also said that the building had been constructed “in such a way as to completely insulate the hotel from outside noise and air traffic, as well as having a thermal transmission coefficient of almost zero”. The property joins the existing ibis Madrid Aeropuerto Barajas, located to the west of the airport, as well as several other ibis ...

I moved to Spain about a year ago and at one of my first meals in Madrid, I saw a handsome young couple drinking some kind of unidentifiable light brown cocktail on ice with a wedge of orange and green olives. It was before noon and I was stumped. I had to know what it was. Vermouth, they told me.Before I moved to Spain, I knew of two types of vermouth: white and red. So I had to try it — and it was delicious. Lighter, more subtle, more medicinal than anything I’d had in America.And it’s a lot more than a drink. Vermouth is to Spain what a pint is to Ireland or mate is to Argentina — a national pastime. It’s a lifestyle, as much an activity as it is a beverage. There are establishments called vermuterias here. Historically, people drink vermouth on Sunday mornings after church. In fact, i...

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Accor opens ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto – Business Traveller

Salty, Sweet, Bitter and More, Vermouth Is a Taste of Madrid in a Glass