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Relief
Between 11 and 1 everything changes. Adolescents, aka teenagers, head for home as the are fased out of clubs and bars prepping for the universoty-aged crowd and on up.
Here's where the nite truly begins.
Now the process is different. You made it to the blessed promised land, the land of milk and honey... or at least the inside of a disco hot that's enough to melt the polar cap on the planet Pluto.
But you can't let them see you sweat, can you?
Saddle on up to the bar, and pick your poison. What kinda mood you in tonite? Spaniards always laugh and can spot out Americans because gringos almost always have a beer in their hand. But that's what everybpdy does back home.
Hey Toto-- we ain't in Kansas anymore. You know what they say, "When in Rome..."
 This doesn't mean that you individually have to sponsor every whiskey make in Spain, and all tonight. Spaniards do drink "Whee-skee y Coh-kah Koh-lah" 546.54654.1654646.2222 to 1 over any other type of drink, but that's not to say other sorts of libations don't exist. There's Whiskey and Coke, Coke and Whiskey, Jack and Coke, umm... Johnny Walker and Coke, Whiskey DYC and Coke.
You'll loose no respect for ordering a Rum and Coke (known to true caribbean drinkers as a "Cuba Libre"), but make certain that they don't accidentally switch it out for whiskey. Think about it, when you grab the same bottle 500.000 times in a nite, anything with "y Coca Cola" sounds the same. If you're born with whiskey in your veins, you're in luck. For the rest of us... find a basic mixed drink that you like and is ridiculouly easy to make (eg. no more than 3 ingredients) and stick with it for life.
Keep an eye out for girls young enough to not be allowed into R-rated movies, wearing an outfit so skimpy you take a double take even though you fear for being called out as a pedaphile. These nymphs of the nite generally hand out discount drinks/shots passes and sometimes discount entrance to some of the few discos that charge a cover.
You'll quickly find out that going out in Madrid means going ABOUT, from one place to another to another to another to another... The nite is long and so is the hiking you're sure to be doing if you go out with locals. Nothing wrong with this, simply keeps the scene fresh and gives you a chance to get fresh air. Know that if after 15 minutes in the hotest club you' ve ever been in all the Spaniards you came with are walking out the door, it's not because they don't like it there, but simply because they have no choice-- being nomadic is in their blood.
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