Asturias Madrid

... art museums in Madrid- the Prado, the Thiessen and the Sofia. I only paid to go in the Sofia out of the three because it had an extensive collection of all of Dali and Picassos works. It most importantly had Picasso's original Guernica covering one full wall. Everyone crowded around it and observed the dramatic floating heads and bull expressing a deep drama noone will quite understand. Dali's pieces had me lost in a dream of melting body parts in desolate ...

Finally fell asleep in a reasonable amount of time last night, probably because, until now, I have had about 10 cumulative hours of sleep since leaving the US. We decided to go to El Rastro, the big, famous outdoor market in Madrid, this morning, so we woke up kind of early in order to beat the crowd and heat. I finally asked Maru flat out if I could eat my Fiber One instead of the cornflakes, and she looked at me like I was crazy, but said yes, she didn't care, as long as I was ...

I knew what I would be doing (more or less) for the next few years and I was really excited. Bonus for me I was staying in a party hostel. There was a bar crawl organised every night often including free drinks, the thing to do then was take the free drinks and then add some cheap some booze of your own and stay in the hostel partying all night. The first night however I joined the bar crawl and met lots of great people, mostly canadians, I will never forget the ...

... that. Literally 3 minutes later, I get a HUGE plate filled with spaghetti and what looked like a hot dog chopped up with a piece of bread on the side. I am pretty much inhaling it yet Maruja keeps encouraging me and then demands I took a piece of fruit. In order to be respectful, I take a banana but I wanted it anyway because I was still starving. As I am eating, the next-door neighbors come by where some other program participants are living as well the Senora next ...

... lake in downtown madrid! i went shopping in plaza sol and then hit plaza de cibeles. of course i went walking around town with the irish cuz they were just absolutely so much fun! we hit el museo prado and just saw the sites and then stopped at a restaurant named Ganga! it was my first time for indian food and i had chicken curry and garlic nan. I think im in love with indian food. i can see myself eating more of it in the future! sad day that they ...

Hola!!! Justo a mi llegada a España, fue el Carnaval de Madrid....hacen desfiles en las calles de las culturas que hay aqui: bolivianos, colombianos, mexicanos, españoles, árabes bailando en la calle con sus trajes típicos. Y durante una semana hay diferentes eventos: Día de disfraces, Combate de Don Carnal y Doña Cuaresma, Entierro de la Sardina....jajaja ...y muchas cosas más...fue una muy buena bienvenida a Madrid!!! El Entierro ...

... the life drain out of me. People everywhere, coming at you from all angles. Looking down the street, people were parading down shoulder to should, as if a mass exodus from a football game was occurring. 4.5 million people populate this city and I believe they were all in Sol that evening! "Todo, we are not in little Basque country anymore," was my immediate thought that night. I looked over at my father while he waited in line for ham and ...

... t really talked to Irene much because we kind of have different schedules and she is pretty quiet, but I'm sure that'll get better with time. So Valentina always cooks for me, sometimes I eat with the rest of the family, sometimes not, depending on our schedules. The food has been interesting to say the least. It seems my host mom doesn't have a variety of recipes, and I've already had enough pork to last me a lifetime! Pork is super common in Spain, there's ...

... we bomb one of your towns? F: Which one? H: Little place called Guernica, up in the Basque region. Should only kill or injure 1600 people or so. F: Oh, ok then. Sure. Picasso was in Paris when he heard the news about the bombing and he painted a mural to raise consciousness about the threat of fascism. The mural was then placed on display in the Spanish pavilion of the 1937 Paris Exposition. Picasso never explained what he meant by some of the images in the painting ...

... night because out train had to stop because of a fire on the tracks ahead so I had plenty of time to finish those postcards I bought a week ago. We got to out hotel and the room was beautiful - we couldn´t work out why we were only paying 25 euros per night for it until we looked over the balcony to see the street below swarming with very masculine looking hookers. We ventured out to find dinner but all that was open was a 24 hour job ...