International Hostel Posada de Huerta Madrid

... shuttle and they tell us we have to make our own reservation, the next van is reserved for them.

I head back inside the airport and the information people wearing the neon smocks ignore me while they’re taking a smoking break. When I ask about making a phone call they point me to the information booth, and the man at the information booth tells me to use the public phone. I have a few Euros and dial the ...

... you are early so you have to go out to eat dinner with them and other guests and so you say your not hungry because you are on a strictly (1euro-max) bread diet and they say thats okay you can just get a drink or something. so you have to buy a 3euro drink and be the only wierd one not eating and be hungry but you can´t eat your bread because you said your not hungry. then you go to flamenco and realize ...

... food that was so good or our Asian cuisine withdrawals. Prior to dinner we visited the Prado Art Museum. SHE SAID: The airport in Barcelona was crazy. People everywhere, long lines, and pretty chaotic. But we made our flight. In retrospect I would recommend taking the AVE train versus flying if anyone every finds themselves in this situation. Driving into Madrid was ...

"A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings" - Sa'di 29 March Day 4: Madrid, Spain We arrived late last night in Spain. The ease that settles over your travels when there is a way to communicate. Alex is able to speak fluently to people here. I'm the only one with no ability to speak the language which targets me as useless but my other three companions make up for it. Knew I shouldn't have taken French in high school. Down a dark alley, we found our hotel. Far from a ...

... haven't had a problem with seasickness at all! The weather had been pretty cloudy and rainy so I am not going to come home with that amazing tan I had mid way though.  Other then that things are good! We have finals this week and then packing and reorientation stuff going on. This trip has seriously been the most amazing three months of my life. I can't even explain how much I have been through, seen and learned. I have done so many things that I never even knew I ...

... me to show it to him better, afterwards saying that he was mistaken, that "Cuentos de Eva Luna" was his favorite book, not Eva Luna. I looked at him dumfound, thinking that something was lost in translation. I asked him, "hay dos libros?" (there are two books?) and he said, "Oh yes, there is one called "Eva Luna" and one called "Cuentos de Eva Luna", both written by Isabel Allende. Well, as most of you that know me well might have guessed by now, I am supposed to read ...

... was we were under consideration. Madrid is willing and able (to be fair) to spend €€€€€€&eu ro;€€€€€ in preparations to attract the attention of the committee - Public Works are underway all over the community ("Their tax €€s at work") and a mega sports complex has been built (renovated, actually) that is impressive. Paris is also under consideration and according to Pablo, will probably win. "Joder ...