Hotel Lusso Infantas Madrid

... before Musaf because we can't take it anymore. I go back home in a very bad mood indeed.

That night, there was a huge event/party in Madrid called the Noche en Blanco (White Night). It's a European tradition where once a year, most major European cities stay open all night and have activities like dancing, street performances and free entrance to museums and galleries. I went with Kaitlin and Alicia around 11pm, still bright and early, and we walked around ...

... just ate bread today since I already broke my budget on an expensive bus, so I eat it then he points to his cheek and wants a kiss, so I get up and slowly sneak away. This is not the first time this has happened I don´t know if I should consider people creepy if they want a kiss or thats just how they say goodbye here.
In France everybody wants kisses on the cheek even if you are a stranger, when i ...

... where we recognized some fruit, vegetable or meat as a part of the recipe. (Food is generally high on flour, sugar and grease, with smoking in all restaurants at all times-the effort at designated smoking areas didn't pass here in Spain.) Finally found a juice place and the fresh orange juice was a treat! The operator was 22 yrs. old, a colle student of I.T.(information technology). The oranges are fed whole ...

... visas. (And because our tour goes to Spain, Gibraltar, and Morocco, the Kiev participants needed not one, not two, but three visas, while the American citizens needed none. Talk about the importance of citizenship and belonging.) Our Madrid tour guide tried her best to keep a jet-lagged group of Jewish tourists interested in the history of Madrid - a history that has almost nothing to say about Jews. Madrid was made the capital of Spain in the 16th century, almost 100 years after Jews ...

... a ticket to Paris, and hopped off in Madrid. This is the privilege of traveling without baggage, jumping ship when you like, as long as no flight segments remain. The airlines don't like it. I don't like some things they do, or the trains either. The Eurail pass is an outright rip-off. I'll tell you how to cheat that if you want. The Dakar airport has all the charm of Guatemala City's and the Air France food was better ...

... Everyone wants to talk to everyone else, you see people you know from trips/orientation all over the place. Nobody is clique-y at all. So I forgot to mention the horseback riding .. "adventure".. we experienced during the Andalucia trip. The horses were all on crack. They were all fighting with eachother and like, going the wrong way and stuff. It was nuts. Half the kids on the trip had never ridden before, and ...

... i haven´t remembered or would be too hard to include in here, but there are lots of photos and video that can be viewed (at our discretion of course!!). we are now in madrid (following the bomb scare in london). liss and i have caught up on some well deserved sleep following contiki which is ok cos we come back to madrid later on. david has arrived in madrid now, so i´m guessing we won´t see much of him and tan now! again, nowhere to put on photos. we are trying!!! love to all xx

... part of the city with my wallet intact?!). I slept ALOT the next day, and unfortuantly wasted a day recovering from the night before with the other Canadians lads. Lesson learned - took it relatively easy that night, and woke up early to get a start on the city. - caught a guy trying to pickpocket the biggest guy on the metro in Madrid (me), and nearly broke off his hand after i found it in my pocket...lol. I ...

... all a bit cranky from leaving the beautiful city of Barcelona behind, the LOONNNGGG bus ride and now RAINY Madrid. Our hotel in Madrid wasn't as great as the 4 star hotel in Barcelona but it was decent at least. We had four to a room this time instead of the usual two. The view from our balcony was really nice and you could see the train station that was bombed a few years earlier (apparently it was the equivalent of the 9/11). For the ...

... city. From 10 to about 3 in the afternoon, I wandered around. One of the guys at the hostel basically drew me a map of what I should see in one day, and it helped a lot. I saw all the major tourist points, things to see, etc. And was back to the hostel in time for an afternoon siesta. Once again, I was in the center of some real sport fanatics, this time futbol fans... the real crazies. Real Betis (Sevilla) played Osasuna (Pamplona) for the ...