Consulate-General of Spain in New York

VISIT TO MADRID
To: The Consulate General
From: Irma Z. Marco
16 Ruth Ave.,
Clifton, NJ 07014
Today is exactly 31/2 months after my husband and I visited Madrid, on our way to Berlin, Germany, to celebrate with my sister, a cloistered nun, her 25th jubilee anniversary. However, all the excitements turned into a nightmare on our second day of the 5 day visit, because, my husband was pick pocketed of our cash money, about $2,800 including the $1,000 donation and gift to the nuns from friends and relatives, on our day tour to Toledo. My husband and I were so devastated and felt so bad that we wanted to get out of Madrid the soonest possible because, to begin with, the hard earned mondy, including the donation, were all gone in just a blink of an eye. According to our Tourist Guide, this is the first time it happened to her and her group. I don't know if people report incidents like this because of the limited time you have. But we decided to report to the police what happened, even if it meant spending the whole day waiting, because according to the policeman, when we went there at 9:00 A.M. the line was very long and that it would be better to come back at 7:00 P.M. which we did. Up to this time, we haven't heard anything about the result. The policemen who took the report told us that they will send the result through our Embassy here. It's been 3 1/2 months now and we never heard anything.
Up to this time, we really were not able to recover from the incident. We didn't tell anything to anyone including my 2 grown up kids. We only told them the story 2 weeks ago and they blamed us for not telling them what happened. We told them we wanted to forget everything, like it didn't happen. After knowing this, they pushed us to report this to make your tourists aware of incidents like this, for them to be careful and avoid the same thing happening to them.
With that amount of money, I could have bought a lot of things that the nuns needed, which we really planned, but this incident happened. I just prayed that whoever took this money needed it more than than we and the nuns do.

Spain Gourmentour Magazine online
What is the link to view your magazine since it has not been sent out to me as a hard copy in a few years. Certainly do miss it. Thanks Dick

First Visit
Hola,
My wife and I just returned from a two week tour of your beautiful country.It was a dream trip to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary and we loved each day of it. The people, cities (Madrid, Toledo, Seville, Marbella, Gibraltar, Ronda, Barcelona) and food were fantastic.
I am writing this next comment as an observation you might want to address and that is the large amount of graffiti that seems to appear in each city we have visited. It takes away from the real beauty of the country and should be dealt with. Everyone on my tour felt the same way but I thought I would write you to bring an emphasis to the problem. One suggestion I could give is to ger rid of the graffiti as soon as you notice it. Leaving it on store fronts or walls just attracts more. You might also want to install cameras to catch these vandals. If they are younsters, have their parents pay the bill to clean it up.
We will return to Spain in the future and want to thank you for sharing the beauty that is your country's.