Cafe Populart
On monday night, after having heard about it for quiet some time, i finally ended up in Cafe Populart with some friends. In this bar located in Huertas centric area (Calle Huertas, 22), you can find jazz live music almost every night of the week, from 11pm to 2am.
For example, yesterday a music band with a look from the 20s was playing: two vocals (a girl and a guy), one guitar, one piano, one contrebassa…. singing oldies from the 20s or so.
Entry is for free during concerts, but you have to drink : a draught beer is 5 euros for example. I think its pretty fair, since the music and the atmosphere are really charming and special.
Definitely a place where i’ll come back!
Cafe Populart at Madrid
TeleMadrid, Madrid’s local TV channel, has every Monday at 9.45pm a tv documentary called « Madrileños por el Mundo », which you could translate as « Madrid people around the world ».
Basically, some reporters go visit people born in Madrid (even if there were born there 40 years ago) that currently live abroad. Yesterday, it was about Madrid people living in Seoul (South Korea – Seùl in Spanish) and Porto (Portugal – Oporto in Spanish).
We met really different people :
- a rich woman who just followed her german husband to Porto
- an old man from Paseo del Prado who went at the Korean War and decided to stay there afterwards – he had been living in Seul for already 46 years!
- a young girl from Alcorcon doing her Erasmus in Porto
- a young guy who went for one year to Seul to help Spanish companies to expand to South Korea
- a young Korean guy who is Korean from his parents but has always lived in Madrid (… but nevertheless feels a bit like a stranger in both countries: in Spain cause he looks asian, and in South Korea cause he has a weird foreigner accent when he speaks Korean)
- …
We see different views of the cities, different point of views, different rythm of life, different stories as well, and that makes it very interesting. We generally end up seeing people, places, events, situations we would not see if we were just visiting the city as a tourist.
For obvious reasons, i like this tv documentary. I also like « J’irais dormir chez vous« , a french travel documentary, which offers a different version of the same theme: basically, there is that guy that chooses a country, and intents to get invited to people’s home over there. He gets sometimes into embarassing situations, but never loses his french humor and always tries to go to not touristic places!…
