The monkey girls made a quick hop from Lisbon to Madrid to continue on to their next stop, Toledo. They stayed within the city walls in a restored seventeenth-century monastery, the Hostal del Cardenal. The girls also learned what the monastery was best-known for - Toledo's finest signature food, roast suckling pig, which the girls were so anxi...

Today Feng and I decided to take a day trip to Toledo, a hill-top town outside of Madrid that was the Medieval capital of Spain. The trip to and from Toledo was much more challenging that Feng and I had been prepared for. Originally, we planned to take a high speed train from Madrid. But, due to my oversleeping and Feng's endless morning prepara...

My parents held strong though the tour I gave them of Madrid; I was proud. The first day we arrived we headed straight to Montiditos! My favorite place to eat in Madrid. It´s a little sandwhich shop, and by little I mean the sandwhiches not the store. There are 100 different types to pick from, and they are delicious simple sandwhich made with y...