When we were in Madrid, living in a tiny hotel, the kids and I found a park that was a short metro train away. The kids loved the park so much, that they begged to go there everyday for a week. The kids, including Erin, weren't interested in doing anything else in the big city, just playing at this park. I happily obliged because it was free and got us out of our hotel. We did rent bikes and rode those along the river a couple times. But the kids favorite part was the ropes courses. They would time themselves to see who could compete the course the fastest. Zach and Erin were always so competitive with each other. The park was brand new and named Madrid Rio. It actually was built where the highway used to run through. This is what one article says about the park:
"More than six miles long, it transforms a formerly neglected area in the middle of Spain’s capital. Its creation, in four years, atop a complex network of tunnels dug to bury an intrusive highway, also rejuvenates a long-lost stretch of the Manzanares River, and in so doing knits together neighborhoods that the highway had cut off from the city center. All around the world, highways are being torn down and waterfronts reclaimed; decades of thinking about cars and cities reversed; new public spaces created."
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