Schedule

Morning stretch. Café + journal. Personal website build — open jessicaslocum.com in Vercel. City is quiet and contemplative on Good Friday — lean into it for deep work. Budget: €3–4 café

Good Friday has a solemn, suspended atmosphere — Madrid goes slow. Long Retiro walk, Crystal Palace, bench with your book. Mercado de la Paz is closed today. Stock up on food at home from yesterday's groceries.

Eat before the processions. El Rincón de Jaén (your street) or anywhere nearby. Look for potaje de garbanzos — traditional Good Friday dish, chickpea stew with cod. Budget: ~€15

Good Friday is the emotional high point of Semana Santa. Metro to Sol, position along Calle Alcalá or Carrera de San Jerónimo. Procesión del Silencio — absolute silence, no drums, only footsteps. Santo Entierro arrives at Plaza Mayor late evening (~10–11pm).

First injection — Pergoveris 300UI + Desogestrel 75mg. Tonight is Day 1. Take between 9–11pm, tonight and every night. Set a recurring 10pm alarm called "meds" through April 19.

Morning stretch. Website build — add your first case study or project page. Keep the momentum from yesterday.

Jardín del Capricho (open 9am–6:30pm, weekends only). Metro to Canillejas or Alameda de Osuna. A genuinely fairytale garden. Budget 1.5–2 hrs.

Return home. Sit with the feeling of having shipped two things. Read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings or Motherhood on Ice. Journal.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

BUNA specialty coffee on the way to Retiro. Long morning walk — rowboats on the lake, rose garden, people watching.

El Rastro if you want — Easter Sunday may be festive. Almudena Cathedral — Easter Sunday mass or just stand outside and absorb the atmosphere.

Personal website planning session. Open a notebook: What do I want this site to say about me? Draft a rough sitemap: Home / About / Work / Writing / Contact.

Nice solo dinner in Salamanca. You've shipped two apps and it's only day 5.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Job search block — 1.5 hrs. Check all boards, look for anything education-adjacent. Apply to anything that fits. This is a non-negotiable weekly block.

Dental appointment (Velázquez — confirm by WhatsApp before trip). Cleaning + whitening consultation.

Thyssen-Bornemisza free (12–4pm). Impressionists, Hopper, Hockney. 2 hours.

Open Claude Code. Begin personal website build. Start with homepage hero and about section — the words matter more than the design right now.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Tambre appointment. Set two alarms tonight.

Café + journal. Spend 30 minutes free-writing on the AI education project: Who is your person? What does "Priya Parker meets AI ethics" look like as a format?

Job search + applications (1.5 hrs). Continue website build — portfolio/work section.

Museo Sorolla — the painter's home turned museum. Intimate, beautiful, never crowded. One of the best 2 hours you'll spend in Madrid.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Job search block + website copy work. Write the actual words — not just placeholders.

Royal Palace — Changing of the Guard (typically 11am or noon, confirm times). Walk through La Almudena area.

Explore Malasaña or Chueca — completely different neighborhood energy from Salamanca. Good for a longer walk.

Reach out to Madrid friends who've returned. Start scheduling dinners and meetups for this week.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Café + journal + reading. Job search. Possibly Tambre monitoring.

Reina Sofía. Guernica. Allow 2.5–3 hours — Picasso, Dalí, Miró. Buy tickets in advance.

Tambre appointment.

AI education project format decision day. After Reina Sofía, sit in a café and commit: Is this a website? A newsletter? An interactive guide? Make the call.

First dinner with Madrid friends — let them take you somewhere local they love.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Tambre monitoring appointment (build in the window).

Job search + applications.

Longer café work session — personal website copy. Write the actual words for every section. This is where most people stall. Don't.

Read Boys in the Boat. Audiobook to sleep.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Tambre appointment.

The Festival by Salesas — most chic market option. Independent brands, emerging designers, artisan makers. Salesas neighborhood has genuine style.

Mercado de Motores (11am–10pm) at Museo del Ferrocarril. 150+ artisans inside a 19th-century iron-and-glass train station. Extraordinary setting.

Vibe coding session #1 with friends (remote, Zoom). Pick one small, satisfying feature to build together — something on the website or AI project.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

El Rastro, La Latina (9am–3pm, arrive before 10am). 1,000+ merchants. Pair with tapas lunch in La Latina after.

Museo Lázaro Galdiano — private collection, extraordinary and almost never crowded. Spanish and European art, decorative arts, enamels. One of Madrid's genuine secrets.

Website visual/portfolio section — add work samples, case studies, anything that shows what you've built.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Job search block — weekly rhythm. Apply to anything education-focused that emerged this week.

Thyssen free if you want to revisit — the Impressionist floor in particular rewards a second look.

Website polish — review everything built so far. What's missing? What's weak?

Louis Tomlinson at Movistar Arena — only if you're into it. No obligation. Alternatively a social dinner with Madrid friends.

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Tambre monitoring (if scheduled). Then prepare the apartment — pick up something good for her arrival. She lands at MAD at 10am, at your door by ~11:30am.

She's here. Take her for a cortado and lunch in Salamanca — show her your neighborhood. Easy places: El Rincón de Jaén (your bar), Bar Tomate, or Lateral.

Fundación Canal — street art exhibition (open through May 3). History of street art through national and international artists. Good first-afternoon culture, relaxed and walkable from Salamanca. Budget: free or small entry

She'll likely be tired or working. Final push on personal website. Whatever is unfinished — finish it today. Deploy the first live version.

Your first dinner together in Madrid. Viuda de Vacas (Calle del Águila 2, La Latina) — traditional Castilian, very much a "Madrid" experience. Reserve ahead. Budget: ~€25–35/person

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Light café morning. Job search check-in. No heavy building today — your energy is for the evening. She's at work.

Gentle Retiro walk. Read on a bench. Let the city wash over you. Maybe the Thyssen or Sorolla if you haven't been.

Teatro Real flamenco — Alba Heredia / José Maya programme. Book tickets in advance for both of you. One of Madrid's finest flamenco experiences. Dinner after. Budget: €35–60/person tickets + dinner

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Tambre monitoring. Café after — give yourself space to just be. She's at work.

Extended journal session. Write about what this trip has been so far. What have you built? What surprised you?

CentroCentro concert series — Raúl Rodríguez performing today. Beautiful space inside the Cibeles Palace. Very walkable from Salamanca. Budget: free

Dinner at Restaurante Farah (Calle de los Mancebos 2, La Latina) — Eastern Mediterranean, terrace, lamb kebab, knafé dessert. Or Querido Martínez or HER Restaurante. Budget: ~€30–40/person

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Job search. Light website refinements — fix anything that bothered you on first review. Send the link to one trusted person for feedback.

Museo del Prado together, or Thyssen-Bornemisza, or Reina Sofía. Buy tickets online in advance. Plan 2 hrs, then exit for a long leisurely coffee.

Long dinner at Little Dragon (Calle de los Reyes 11) — reserve for two for Friday evening. Or take her to Casa González (Calle de León 12) for pre-dinner wine and cheese board. Budget: ~€20–35/person

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Start at Hola Coffee (Calle Lagasca 42) or Religion Coffee. She gets to experience your Madrid routine.

AI education project — first real unit. You've had two weeks to think. Build in the morning while she's settled in. First page, first module, first piece of content.

El Rastro (La Latina, 9am–3pm — go by 10:30am to be able to move). Wander without agenda, split up and meet at a corner. Then tapas lunch in La Latina — Malacatín for cocido, or tapas along Calle Cava Baja. Budget: ~€25–35 lunch

Jardín del Capricho (weekends only, 9am–6:30pm) — or Retiro if tired. Slow afternoon. Let the city be beautiful.

Her last full night. Make it count. Desde 1911 (your seafood splurge — book ahead) or Emma Cocina near Plaza Mayor. Budget: ~€40–60/person Desde 1911 · €20–25 Emma Cocina

Pergoveris + Desogestrel

Retrieval procedure — egg freezing retrieval. Early morning appointment (clinics typically schedule 8–10am). She can be with you at the apartment before or go with you if you want company for the walk. This is the whole reason you came.

She's here for a couple more hours. She should aim to leave your apartment around 12:30–1pm at the latest to make her 2:35pm departure. Order something in, make tea, sit on the couch. Let her take care of you before she goes.

Apartment. Soft pants. Rest. Whatever you need. Order food in. You're not doing anything else today and that's exactly right.

Start Brain on Fire — perfect for a day when you're horizontal and want something that pulls you in completely.

Slow. Café nearby if you feel up to it — just coffee and a book, nothing more.

Journal the full trip. What happened? What did you build? What surprised you? What are you proud of? Write it all down before it fades.

Light check-in — just see what's there. No heavy lifting.

Read Brain on Fire. Let yourself finish something.

Final Retiro walk if you feel physically okay. Take your time. Notice what you notice differently than you did on April 1.

Your favorite café. Last long reading session. Finish whichever book you're deepest in.

Pack. Don't leave this for tomorrow morning. Review everything you built: apps live? Website live? AI project started? Job applications out?

Nice final dinner — somewhere you've been wanting to go back to.

Audiobook on the way to the airport. The good kind of tired.