{"id":6911,"date":"2026-05-12T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:46:28","slug":"day-zero-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/day-zero-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Zero &#8211; Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Camino de Madrid Day 0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yesterday we arrived in Madrid after about a 30-hour flight.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The flight was Sydney to Singapore to London to Madrid. And we arrived in Madrid on Saturday afternoon and checked into Hostel Delfina.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We&#8217;ve spent today, Sunday, recovering from the flight and looking around Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lots of food, of course, down around the Plaza Mayor and we visited the San Miguel Mercado &#8211; the San Miguel market which is always interesting and we bought some essential supplies to start our walk tomorrow which included chorizo and Cameroons. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AI3J8tTSCtM?si=j-Z_6-U9W3mmm1O4?rel=0\" width=\"950\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6920 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Day-0-Madrid-Real-Iglesia-Parroquial-de-Santiago-y-San-Juan-Bautista.jpg\" alt=\"Day 0 - Madrid - Real Iglesia Parroquial de Santiago y San Juan Bautista\" width=\"950\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Day-0-Madrid-Real-Iglesia-Parroquial-de-Santiago-y-San-Juan-Bautista.jpg 950w, https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Day-0-Madrid-Real-Iglesia-Parroquial-de-Santiago-y-San-Juan-Bautista-480x177.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 950px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6970 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Parroquial-de-Santiago.jpg\" alt=\"Parroquial de Santiago\" width=\"950\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Parroquial-de-Santiago.jpg 950w, https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Parroquial-de-Santiago-480x177.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 950px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now we&#8217;re all packed up and ready to go and we&#8217;ll start off early tomorrow. And we&#8217;ll be posting our post Camino luggage to Santiago before we start s<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">o that we&#8217;re now down to just our backpacks with all of our gear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"950\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uok3Gm9Vp4c?si=qiYGuwZIduCa-7-J?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long journey from Sydney to Madrid, the first day was spent recovering, exploring the city and preparing for the Camino adventure starting the next morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[9,373,374,60,371,372],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camino-de-madrid","tag-camino","tag-camino-day-0","tag-camino-de-madrid","tag-camino-de-santiago","tag-camino-preparation","tag-starting-the-camino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robscamino.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}