After spending a long time on the plane and even longer (2 hours!) on the Madrid metro system, I checked into my hostel and checked out the country of Spain. Ended up hanging with a Liverpudlian (is that what you call their kind) and a Melbourne chick who could speak fluent Spanish, very handy. Ate a weird meal. We thought we were ordering tapas...

What a day!!! I made my 4th five and a half hour bus ride to Madrid tonight. It was the last one leaving Granada, at 7pm, and we didnt get into Madrid until 12:30am. Since the public buses stopped running, we had to take the Metro to get to the airport. This was my first Metro ride since being over here, so I was kind of excited! In my group the...