Chamartin Hotel Madrid

... with a small dagger to the back of the spine. <br><br>Then the horses come out with heroic music playing and they drag the bull away!! <br><br>This routine was repeated 4 or 5 times by different matadors to impress the judges and the crowds. <br><br>So was that so bad? No, yes the bull dies but hey, he has fun doing it! <br><br>After the bull fight we then went back to the main square and had some sangria at a little local pub/restaurant by the Puerta De Sol.

... on the bus for a night fountain/sights tour plus dinner in a traditional Spanish restaurant. Then if people have the energy, Salsa dancing at 10.30 until a maximum 2am with a late start of 9.30am tomorrow. I'd like to try some Salsa dancing, but Dan's not so sure how he'll feel, so we'll just wait and see. Sleep is hard to come by so I wont be unhappy to be well rested either! The hotel, again, is very nice..your money does go further in Spain. We have free wireless, a large room and ...

... without question with cream cheese. Dios mio, do I sound Jewish. Albeit Tuesday night should have been filled with St. Paddy's day festivities, I didn't actually do very much since it's obviously not that big of a deal here. Nevertheless, I met my friend Pat's parents and we had a beer at Seco Cinco but that was about it. On Wednesday, I played my 1st live game of basketball since I arrived in Spain. Fortunately, I got to play with some Spanish ...

... displayed do not interest us much. Only the ability to say we've been to the Prado interested us. Night Mich and I walked again in the rain to Plaza del Sol to meet the other 2 guys, and had felafels for dinner. Real Madrid were playing Sevilla at the Santiago Bernabeu, and I considered going except that the cheapest tickets were $100, and we had tickets to FC Barcelona in 2 days' time. Instead the 4 of us were happy to go to a bar and watch there. I regretted missing ...

... of the bar and in search of a place for dinner. (My attempts at making this a cheap trip by cooking our meals has been sufficiently overruled by all those involved...such is life.) We ate at a great pizza place, which in typical Spanish fashion had good food and really slow service. From here we went in search of this bar that had beer pong on Thursday nights, but of course Andrew had just looked at the map online and never wrote down the actual ...

Hola! Como estas! Estoy muy bien en la Madrid. Ok, that's as far as I'll go with my Spanish for now. I arrived in Madrid equipped with two solid years of Spanish 1 in high school since I didn't pass the first time. But I was excited to use my espanol and when I got to the airport, so I confidently asked the lady in the info booth, Donde esta metro estacion? She glanced at me with a disturbed look and replied, "down to your left ...

... Sunday (only 15 euros) and it was the best show ever. I so thoroughly enjoyed it...and along the way met two US students from Maine that were studying Spanish in Madrid. Other cool experiences inlclude buying wonderful and very inexpensive stuff from bakeries along with lots of Fanta Orange. I meant to go see a bull fight but slept in instead. Tomorrow I head out to Barcelona and I will be there for a few days too. After that, I am en route to Italia.

... non-American in the room was under the impression that our soldiers were drafted! Is the media really that liberally-biased that the simple fact that we haven't had a draft since Vietnam is hidden from the rest of the world? Anyways, it was pretty clear at the end of the debate who won, and I'm just going to say that we walked out of that hostel singing "America the Beautiful"...literally. The rest of our night was spent watching the Mel Brooks musical, "Los ...

... After seeing Segovia, i realized that i just couldn't make a list of my favorite cities Spain. I love Sevilla, Toledo, and Segovia the most... but Cordoba, Madrid, and Italica aren't far behind. In Segovia, we saw the largest roman aquaducts still standing! They used to still function until 10-15 years ago when the city put in a metro system. It was such an experience to see the aquaducts towering over us, with the hillside of Segovia in the background. But ...

... probably be it for me today. I've actually gotten into the habit of just one meal a day, with a light snack in the afternoon, and I'm really not hungry during the day. Well, it's an early night tonight - tomorrow I have to get up early and head for the Indian embassy for my travel visa... 09 Dec 2004 Creepy stuff in Madrid Just a quick entry - there's some really creepy stuff about this place: 1. There's an ad campaign for Xmas ...