Getting my Bearings

My new Madrid apartment is close to Metro lines 1 & 6, approximately two miles from The Parque de Buen Retiro, one of the most beautiful parks in Europe, and the famous Prado Museum and three miles from Sol, the very center and busiest part of the city.

I will be working at the Artica School, a bilingual charter school southwest of the city center.

The distance from school to home is about seven miles by car, but I will be taking the Madrid's Metro public transportation, reportedly one of the best in the world.

I will be doing a few test runs of my commute to make sure I'm on time my first day, but it may look something like this:

Walk less than 1/2 mile from my apartment to the Pacifico Metro Station (Lines 1&6), take line 6 for six stops to the west to Plaza Elíptica, then take Line 11 out five stops to the end, La Peseta.

It will probably take me about 45 minutes to an hour; pretty comparable to an average commute in Boston, MA.