Check out La Chispa and spend your Sunday night enjoying these live storytellings in English and Spanish at the Atelier Café de la Llana!

Spend your Thursday night at Desperate Literature, our favorite bookshop in Madrid. Enjoy some French style with pastis, Beaujolais Nouveau, stinky cheese and baguettes. Located near metros Santo Domingo and Opera, if you’ve never been to this wonderful second-hand bookstore or don’t know the story behind it, then check out our full post on it here. This place is very special and worth a visit for a number of reasons that you’ll discover when you go.

Come join the guys at Desperate Literature on Friday night for absinthe (the non-hallucinogenic kind), books and conversation. Our favorite bookstore in Madrid, Desperate Literature is a small, cozy place selling quality second-hand books in different languages, located near metro Santo Domingo.

Bring your kids over to our favorite bookshop for English storytelling, cookies and book browsing on Sunday at 4pm! Desperate Literature is hosting the first of an exciting new weekly tradition called ‘Cuentos y Cookies’. We also happen to know the story-teller herself, Emma,  so we can assure  you that you and your children will be in very good hands!

So get your shoelaces tied up, kids – they’ve got a story for you!