Hotel Melia Barajas Madrid

... a couple of hours. Seriously the metro in Madrid is not only super easy, it's safe and clean. I did download a great iphone app that allows you to plan your route off line which helped. (it's called Metro and does a whole bunch of cities / countries). The Metro works out to be &#8364;1 per trip but you can buy books of 10 tickets to save money.<br><br>Back at the hotel we watched a bit of Buffy the Vampire ...

... in till noon...ha--only 8 hours of sleep and we call it sleeping in! Anyway...while photos upload on facebook i run to find a Bakery to bring back some of my favorite pastries for breakfast...I stumble across this place called Peter Pan...which really has a creative spin on it as Pan also mean Bread!! ;) I purchased some some savory pastries and this funky wrap and we had breakfast and lunch all at once...then we were off on a self-guided walking ...

... is abused when they created 2800 rooms for palace. The Prado Museum is regarded as having one of the largest art collections in the world. Unfortunately, we did not know a single piece of artwork inside. It was still interesting to see how the Church dominated the art landscape as many of the paintings inside were of biblical references. After the museum, we headed to Parque de El Retiro. This park was the ...

... I´m viewed as a weak link in the line and used as a portal through the line wherever I go as I´m only one person. Kind of annoying, but I´ll live. Anyways, I wait in line for about an hour before I decide that I´ve had enough and will see if the other museum has a shorter line. I bounced a few streets down to Reina Sofia Museum. The line there was quite a bit shorter and I only had to wait like 15 minutes to get in. It probably has been one of my ...

... into the whole and then they stick the dog in it and then cover it with ketchup. Weird, but good. It definitely didn't taste like an American hot dog, but, hey, it was lunch...and it was good. Then that night I tried to study a little bit more...but once again, I kept talking....I'm such a talker, sheesh! I studied a little bit...then we ordered ...

... knew, but then again, this is Spain !!! And not much later, we were back on the metro, heading to the airport. And Finally. I am a ****wit. I can't believe how long it has taken me to get there, but **** it's a good city. Easily the equal of Barcelona, but different in its own right, but what really amazed me were the amount of Americans we saw. Were they doing to Spain what Spain had done to them centuries ago. Invading with new diseases !!! This I will never know.

... soon :( Barcelona is completely out of my way because I will be going back to Paris after 4 days in Spain but what the hell. Once again another adventure....will update you all when I come across free Internet again (no more money to pay for internet updates).

... around the house. "I've got a pillow, a candlestick, an old tape of the Godfather taped from Channel 7, half a bottle of gin, an almost complete deck of cards and two romance novels I no longer want. What will I do? I'll go to Rastro. Brilliant. Silly silly market. Bullfights are horrific. The fact that the bull never has a change; the taunting; the complete lack of respect for the animal as it stumbles and struggles to a gruesome death all combine to create a hideous ...

... to meeting the lovely Roxy Van Orry (Saskia´s van that will be our mobile home for a while!) and to seeing my Spanish madre again, although last time she was my English mum! Will be hard to drag ourselves away from Ben´s pad and our regular little haunts here in Madrid but I guess there are lots more favourite spots to be found yet!! adios amigos

... contestant simply selects a numbered box. A lot of annoying Spanish antics and babbling go on to draw out the show. Each numbered box contains a prize, and those numbered boxes which the contestant didn't select are each slowly opened to reveal what the contestant didn't win. The twenty prizes vary somewhat exponentially from ten cents to 300,000 Euros. My god, it's impossible to look away! You just keep cheering for the contestant's numbered box to contain he ...